British Army Air Corps officer and astronaut (born 1972)
Tim Peake
CMG HonFIET
Official NASA portrait photograph, taken in August 2013
Born
Timothy Nigel Peake
(1972-04-07) 7 April 1972 (age 52)[2][3]
Chichester, Sussex, England
Status
Retired[1]
Nationality
British
Alma mater
University of Portsmouth (BSc)
Occupation(s)
Test pilot and astronaut
Awards
Companion of the Order of St Michael and St George
Space career
ESA astronaut
Previous occupation
British Army officer
Rank
Major
Time in space
185 days 22 hours 11 minutes
Selection
2009 ESA Group
Total EVAs
1
Total EVA time
4 hours, 43 minutes
Missions
Soyuz TMA-19M (Expedition 46/47)
Mission insignia
Website
www.timpeake.comprincipia.org.uk
Major Timothy "Tim" Nigel PeakeCMG (born 7 April 1972) is a British European Space Agency astronaut, Army Air Corps officer and author.
He is the first British ESA astronaut, the second astronaut to bear a flag of the United Kingdom patch (following Helen Sharman),[4] the sixth person born in the United Kingdom to go on board the International Space Station, and the seventh UK-born person in space.[5] He began the ESA's intensive astronaut basic training course in September 2009 and graduated on 22 November 2010.[6]
^"Astronaut Tim Peake assumes ESA ambassadorial role". www.esa.int. Retrieved 20 January 2023.
^"Timothy Peake". European Space Agency. Retrieved 31 August 2016.
^"PEAKE, Timothy Nigel". Who's Who. Vol. 2016 (online Oxford University Press ed.). Oxford: A & C Black. (Subscription or UK public library membership required.)
^Cockburn, Harry (18 June 2016). "Tim Peake touches down safely after six months in space". The Independent. Archived from the original on 7 December 2023. Retrieved 6 December 2023.
^"Tim Peake launch: The seven Britons to go to space". BBC News. 15 December 2015. Archived from the original on 30 May 2023. Retrieved 15 December 2023.
^Amos, Jonathan (22 November 2010). "Europe's new astronauts graduate". BBC News. Archived from the original on 6 December 2017. Retrieved 22 October 2010.
Major Timothy "Tim" Nigel Peake CMG (born 7 April 1972) is a British European Space Agency astronaut, Army Air Corps officer and author. He is the first...
aimed at children about Peake's time on board the ISS, titled "Ground Control to Major Tim: The Space Adventures of Major TimPeake". Video game designer...
to Expedition 47. The expedition has the first British ESA astronaut (TimPeake) to visit the International Space Station (ISS). Source Spacefacts Following...
Following his six-month mission on the International Space Station, TimPeake visited the National Space Centre on Friday 14 October 2016 where he talked...
in 2017 alongside Sir Ranulph Fiennes, Ed Stafford (her husband) and TimPeake and was referred to as "The Adventurer". Laura Bingham was born and brought...
Karen Nyberg John D. Olivas Takuya Onishi Luca Parmitano Nicholas Patrick TimPeake Thomas Pesquet Marc Reagan Garrett Reisman Kathleen Rubins Dick Rutkowski...
Station. The first EVA by a British astronaut was on January 15, 2016, by TimPeake. Although British-American Michael Foale carried out an EVA on February...
residents of the United Kingdom. During his mission, British ESA astronaut TimPeake deployed the computers on board the International Space Station. He loaded...
Brazier. She conducted the first live TV interview with the astronaut TimPeake from the International Space Station. In April 2019, Secker drew criticism...
Karen Nyberg John D. Olivas Takuya Onishi Luca Parmitano Nicholas Patrick TimPeake Thomas Pesquet Marc Reagan Garrett Reisman Kathleen Rubins Dick Rutkowski...
from the International Space Station. Towel Day was celebrated by Briton TimPeake on the International Space Station. As Towel Day 2016 fell during the...
TMA-18M return". nasaspaceflight.com. Retrieved 6 March 2016. "UK astronaut TimPeake returns to Earth". BBC News. 18 June 2016. Retrieved 18 June 2016. "Expedition...
Karen Nyberg John D. Olivas Takuya Onishi Luca Parmitano Nicholas Patrick TimPeake Thomas Pesquet Marc Reagan Garrett Reisman Kathleen Rubins Dick Rutkowski...
Karen Nyberg John D. Olivas Takuya Onishi Luca Parmitano Nicholas Patrick TimPeake Thomas Pesquet Marc Reagan Garrett Reisman Kathleen Rubins Dick Rutkowski...
April 2010. "TimPeake begins stay on international space station". BBC. 15 December 2015. Retrieved 4 October 2016. "UK astronaut TimPeake returns to...
the International Space Station. Newly qualified British ESA astronaut TimPeake appeared as a guest. Scientific advisors for the first series included...
Karen Nyberg John D. Olivas Takuya Onishi Luca Parmitano Nicholas Patrick TimPeake Thomas Pesquet Marc Reagan Garrett Reisman Kathleen Rubins Dick Rutkowski...
(Supplement). 11 June 2016. p. B11. "Queen's Birthday Honours: Rod Stewart and TimPeake head list". BBC News. 10 June 2016. Retrieved 10 June 2016. Reader, Jane...
Benedict Cumberbatch, who played Stephen Hawking in Hawking, astronaut TimPeake, Astronomer Royal Martin Rees and physicist Kip Thorne provided readings...
Karen Nyberg John D. Olivas Takuya Onishi Luca Parmitano Nicholas Patrick TimPeake Thomas Pesquet Marc Reagan Garrett Reisman Kathleen Rubins Dick Rutkowski...
interviewing people from the world of science, such as British astronaut TimPeake. He was also behind a tech show on the station called Mousemat (2013)...
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