Timothy Peake

Speaker Bio

Tim Peake CMG

Born in Chichester, England, on 7 April 1972, Tim was the first British ESA astronaut to visit the International Space Station. He launched on a Soyuz rocket on 15 December 2015 and landed back on Earth 18 June 2016, after 186 days in space.

Tim was selected as an ESA astronaut in May 2009. Along with his five ESA classmates, he graduated from astronaut basic training in November 2010. Tim spent three years conducting further training and operations in Mission Control, including becoming an aquanaut during NASA’s twelve-day underwater NEEMO 16 mission, prior to his assignment to a long-duration mission in 2013.

During Tim’s Principia mission to the International Space Station, he conducted a spacewalk to repair the Station's power supply. Other highlights saw him take part in over 250 scientific experiments for ESA and international partners, dock two spacecraft to the Station and run over thirty educational outreach projects that have since reached more than two million students.