Distance Major Peake is from Earth - not that far! (Basically like travelling from London to Scarborough.) This is why you can see sometimes see the ISS because it's in 'low orbit'.
But although the premiership was now his, Il Duceâa master of propaganda who claimed the backing of 300,000 fascist militiamen when the real number was probably far lowerâwanted to make a show of force. As a result, he joined armed supporters who flooded the streets of Rome the following day.
During the night of July 24 the Fascist Grand Council in Rome passes a vote of no confidence in Mussolini. The next day the dictator is arrested on the order of the king, Victor Emmanuel III, who appoints in his place a field marshal, Pietro Badoglio. Badoglio's main task is to extricate Italy from the war.