Major Timothy Nigel Peake was born on 7 April 1972 and is a British author, Army Air Corps officer and European Space Agency astronaut.
28 Facts About Tim Peake
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Tim Peake is the first British ESA astronaut, the second astronaut to bear a flag of the United Kingdom patch, the sixth person born in the United Kingdom to go on board the International Space Station, and the seventh UK-born person in space.
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Tim Peake began the ESA's intensive astronaut basic training course in September 2009 and graduated on 22 November 2010.
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Tim Peake studied at the Chichester High School for Boys, leaving in 1990 to attend the Royal Military Academy Sandhurst.
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Tim Peake served as a platoon commander with the Royal Green Jackets, and was promoted to lieutenant on 8 August 1994.
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Tim Peake became a qualified helicopter pilot in 1994 and a qualified helicopter instructor in 1998, graduating from CFS at the Defence Helicopter Flying School at RAF Shawbury in Shropshire.
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Tim Peake then served on Rotary Wing Test and Evaluation Squadron at MOD Boscombe Down completing trials on Apache helicopters.
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Tim Peake completed a BSc in Flight Dynamics and Evaluation at the University of Portsmouth the following year.
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Tim Peake left the army in 2009 after 17 years of service and over 3,000 flying hours to his credit, becoming a test pilot with AgustaWestland.
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Tim Peake beat over 8,000 other applicants for one of the six places on the ESA's new astronaut training programme.
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Tim Peake moved to Cologne with his family for the ESA training.
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On 16 April 2012, NASA announced that Tim Peake would serve as an aquanaut aboard the Aquarius underwater laboratory during the NEEMO 16 undersea exploration mission, scheduled to begin on 11 June 2012 and last twelve days.
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Tim Peake was launched to the space station, on 15 December 2015, for Expeditions 46 and 47.
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Tim Peake launched successfully at 11:03 GMT from Baikonur Cosmodrome on board Soyuz TMA-19M.
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Tim Peake received messages of support from the Queen and Elton John, after the successful docking.
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Tim Peake's first meal at the ISS was a bacon sandwich and a cup of tea.
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Tim Peake supported a spacewalk by two American astronauts on 21 December 2015.
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Tim Peake participated in the first spacewalk outside the ISS by a British astronaut on 15 January 2016.
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In February 2016, Tim Peake presented Adele with a Global Success award at the Brit Awards in London.
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On 24 April 2016, Tim Peake ran the 2016 London Marathon from the ISS treadmill.
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Tim Peake became the first man to run the marathon from space and the second person to run a marathon from space, after Sunita Williams, who ran the 2007 Boston Marathon from the ISS.
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Tim Peake was appointed Companion of the Order of St Michael and St George in the 2016 Birthday Honours for services to space research and scientific education.
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On 18 June 2016, Tim Peake returned to Earth from the ISS aboard the descent module of the Soyuz spacecraft that had taken him to the space station in December 2015.
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Tim Peake had completed approximately 3,000 orbits of the Earth and had covered a distance of 125 million kilometres.
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At the UK National Student Space Conference in early 2014, Tim Peake expressed his support for the initiative to award the International Space Station partnership the Nobel Peace Prize.
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Tim Peake noted that with increasing constraints on space programs around the world, collaborative initiatives such as ISS will be necessary for future endeavours.
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Tim Peake is married to Rebecca, with whom he has two sons, and enjoys climbing, caving, cross-country running and triathlon.
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When he was younger Tim Peake was a Cub Scout and is an ambassador for the Prince's Trust and the Scout Association in the UK.