Tim Peake | |
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![]() Official NASA 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]