Tim Peake
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Tim Peake CMG |
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Peake in 2013
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| Nationality | British |
| Status | Active |
| Born | Timothy Nigel Peake 7 April 1972 Chichester, Sussex, England |
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Other occupation
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Test pilot |
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Previous occupation
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British Army officer |
| University of Portsmouth (BSc) | |
| Rank | Major |
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Time in space
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185 days 22 hours 11 minutes (15 December 2015 – 18 June 2016) |
| Selection | 2009 ESA Group |
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Total EVAs
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1 |
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Total EVA time
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4 hours, 43 minutes |
| Missions | Soyuz TMA-19M (Expedition 46/47) |
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Mission insignia
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| Awards | CMG |
| Website | principia |
Major Timothy Nigel "Tim" Peake CMG (born 7 April 1972) is a British Army Air Corps officer, European Space Agency astronaut and a former International Space Station (ISS) crew member.
He is the first British ESA astronaut, the second astronaut to bear a British flag patch (the first was Helen Sharman), 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 (the first was Helen Sharman, who visited Mir as part of Project Juno in 1991). He began the ESA's intensive astronaut basic training course in September 2009 and graduated on 22 November 2010.
Peake was born in Chichester, West Sussex. He studied at the Chichester High School for Boys, leaving in 1990 to attend the Royal Military Academy Sandhurst.
Upon graduation from Royal Military Academy Sandhurst, Peake received a short-service commission as a second lieutenant in the Army Air Corps on 8 August 1992. He served as a platoon commander with the Royal Green Jackets, and was promoted to lieutenant on 8 August 1994. On 9 July 1997, he transferred to a regular commission, receiving a promotion to captain on 20 August.
Peake became a qualified helicopter pilot in 1994 and a qualified helicopter instructor in 1998, graduating from CFS(H) at the Defence Helicopter Flying School at RAF Shawbury in Shropshire. Promoted to major on 31 July 2004, he graduated from the Empire Test Pilots School in Wiltshire the following year, and was awarded the Westland's Trophy for best rotary wing student. He then served on Rotary Wing Test and Evaluation Squadron (RWTES) at MOD Boscombe Down completing trials on Apache helicopters.
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