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Tim Peake
British Army Air Corps officer and astronaut (born 1972)
MajorTimothyNigel PeakeCMG (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]
Early life
[edit]Peake was born in Chichester, Sussex, on April 7, 1972. He grew up in Westbourne, West Sussex.[3] He studied at the Chichester High School for Boys, leaving in 1990 to attend the Royal Military Academy Sandhurst.[7]
Career
[edit]Military and aeronautical
[edit]Upon graduation from Royal Military Academy Sandhurst, Peak
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Timothy (Tim) Peake
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Born in Chichester, England, on 7 April 1972, Tim is married with two sons. Among his leisure activities he enjoys skiing, scuba diving, cross-country running and climbing. Other interests include quantum physics and aviation.
Education
Tim completed his secondary education at Chichester High School for Boys in West Sussex, England, in 1990. In 1992, he graduated from the Royal Military Academy Sandhurst as an officer in the British Army Air Corps. Having been selected for test pilot training, he graduated from the Empire Test Pilots’ School at Boscombe Down in 2005. He received a Bachelor of Science grad in flygning dynamics and evaluation from the University of Portsmouth in 2006.
Special honours
Tim was appointed Companion of the Order of St Michael and St George (CMG) in the Queen’s 2016 Birthday Honours for services to
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Principia mission
Tim was assigned to a long-duration mission to the International Space Station in May 2013. After further training with his crewmates Tim Kopra and Yuri Malenchenko, and many months spent in Russia, the United States, Japan, Canada and Germany he launched to space on 15 December 2015. Tim 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, Tim conducted a spacewalk to repair the Station’s power supply. Other highlights of his mission saw him drive a rover across a simulated Mars terrain from space and he helped dock two spacecraft.
Tim took part in over 250 scientific experiments during his mission, which also focussed on educational outreach, engaging more than 2 million schoolchildren across Europe in over 30 projects during his time in space. As an ambassador for Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics (STEM), Tim is passionate