Tim Peake

Tim Peake
Official ESA portrait photograph, taken in August 2013
Born
Timothy Nigel Peake

(1972-04-07) 7 April 1972 (age 52)[2][3]
Chichester, Sussex, England
StatusRetired[1]
NationalityBritish
Alma materUniversity of Portsmouth (BSc)
Occupation(s)Test pilot and astronaut
AwardsCompanion of the Order of St Michael and St George
Space career
ESA astronaut
Previous occupation
British Army officer
RankMajor
Time in space
185 days 22 hours 11 minutes
Selection2009 ESA Group
Total EVAs
1
Total EVA time
4 hours, 43 minutes
MissionsSoyuz TMA-19M (Expedition 46/47)
Mission insignia
Websitewww.timpeake.com principia.org.uk

Major Timothy Nigel Peake CMG (born 7 April 1972) is a retired 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]

  1. ^ "Astronaut Tim Peake assumes ESA ambassadorial role". www.esa.int. Retrieved 20 January 2023.
  2. ^ "Timothy Peake". European Space Agency. Retrieved 31 August 2016.
  3. ^ "PEAKE, Timothy Nigel". Who's Who. Vol. 2016 (online Oxford University Press ed.). Oxford: A & C Black. (Subscription or UK public library membership required.)
  4. ^ 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.
  5. ^ "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.
  6. ^ Amos, Jonathan (22 November 2010). "Europe's new astronauts graduate". BBC News. Archived from the original on 6 December 2017. Retrieved 22 October 2010.