Astronaut, Tim Peake giving a talk "Return to the Moon", describing the motivation and challenges of visiting our neighbour in space, on the main stage at New Scientist Live 2019
Tim Peake is British-born European Space Agency astronaut. He has had a lifelong passion for space. It started in his childhood, gazing at the stars and visiting air shows. A test pilot, he started training as an astronaut in 2009. From December 2015 he spent six months onboard the International Space Station, where he performed a spacewalk and hundreds of scientific experiments, ran a marathon and was part of the most successful education programme ever supported by an astronaut. He was the first British ESA astronaut to visit the International Space Station. His Principia mission was an eventful and busy six months in space. In the first month after his launch Tim conducted a spacewalk to repair the ISS’s power supply together with NASA astronaut Tim Kopra. Other highlights of his mission saw him drive a rover across a simulated Mars terrain from space and he helped dock two spacecraft. He is the first British ESA astronaut, the second astronaut to bear a flag of the United Kingdom patch (the first was Helen Sharman, who visited Mir as part of Project Juno in 1991), the sixth person born in the United Kingdom to go on board the International Space Station (the first was NASA astronaut Michael Foale in 2003) and the seventh UK-born person in space. He began the ESA's intensive astronaut basic training course in September 2009 and graduated on 22 November 2010.
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