Tim Peake | |
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 Official ESA portrait photograph, taken in August 2013 | |
| Born | Timothy Nigel Peake 7 April 1972[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 |
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]
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- ^ "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.