Timothy Peake

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Timothy Peake
Timothy Peake
Country: United Kingdom
Organization: ESA
selected on May 20, 2009
( EAC group )
Calls: 1 space flight
Begin: December 15, 2015
Landing: June 18, 2016
Time in space: 185d 22h 11m
EVA inserts: 1
EVA total duration: 04h 43min
Space flights

Timothy Nigel "Tim" Peake , CMG (born April 7, 1972 in Chichester , West Sussex ) is a British test pilot and spaceman in the European Astronaut Corps .

Career as a pilot

Timothy graduated from Chichester High School for boys in 1990 and joined the Army Air Corps . His military training took place at the Royal Military Academy Sandhurst . After graduating in 1992, he served as a platoon leader in the Royal Green Jackets Infantry Division and served in Northern Ireland . In 1994 he received his pilot license. From then on he served as a helicopter pilot in various units and then became a helicopter flight instructor in 1998 . In 2005 he trained as a test pilot at the Empire Test Pilots School . A year later he got a bachelor's degree in aeronautical engineering. After 17 years, Timothy retired from the military in 2009 and became a test pilot for AgustaWestland , where he mainly flew Apache and Lynx helicopters . Timothy Peake is a member of the Society of Experimental Test Pilots .

Astronaut career

In the ESA selection process , Peake was able to prevail against 8413 other applicants and was presented to the public on May 20, 2009 as the new ESA astronaut. Timothy Peake began his training at the European Astronaut Center (EAC) in Cologne at the beginning of September 2009. The official completion of the basic training and the appointment as an astronaut took place on November 22, 2010 at an official ceremony at the EAC in Cologne.

As a member of the 16th mission, Peake spent twelve days in NASA's NEEMO underwater laboratory in June 2012 .

Stay on board the ISS

On May 20, 2013, ESA announced that Peake had been nominated for a long-term stay aboard the ISS, where he worked as a flight engineer on Expeditions 46 and 47 . The flight started with the Soyuz TMA-19M spacecraft together with Yuri Malentschenko and Timothy Kopra on December 15, 2015. The mission was named Principia after Isaac Newton's major work Philosophiae Naturalis Principia Mathematica . He returned on June 18, 2016. On January 15, 2016, he and Timothy Kopra became the first British man to undertake an external mission. During his stay on the ISS, he was awarded a medal by Queen Elizabeth II of England as the first person in space and was honored with the Companion of the Order of St Michael and St George (CMG).

Private

Peake is married and has two sons.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Ian Sample: European Space Agency recruits test pilot as Britain's first official astronaut. The Guardian, May 21, 2009, accessed May 20, 2013 .
  2. ^ AgustaWestland Test Pilot Selected For Astronaut Training. In: Aero News Network. AgustaWestland, May 20, 2009, accessed May 20, 2013 .
  3. ↑ Europe's new astronaut class registers for training. ESA, September 14, 2009, accessed May 20, 2013 .
  4. ↑ Press invitation: New ESA astronauts complete basic training. ESA, November 17, 2010, accessed May 20, 2013 .
  5. ↑ Timothy Peake. ESA, accessed on May 20, 2012 .
  6. ↑ Jonathan Amos: UK astronaut Tim Peake 'thrilled' at space opportunity. BBC, May 20, 2013, accessed May 20, 2013 .
  7. ^ ESA: ESA mission name for astronaut Tim Peake: Principia. July 18, 2014, accessed August 25, 2014 .
  8. ↑ Esther Addley, Arise, Sir Rod: rock star knighted in Queen's birthday honors in: The Guardian , June 10, 2016, accessed June 11, 2016
  9. ↑ Timothy Peake. In: ESA Kids. ESA, November 18, 2010, accessed May 20, 2013 .
personal data
SURNAME Peake, Timothy
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Peake, Timothy Nigel (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION British aspiring astronaut from ESA
DATE OF BIRTH April 7, 1972
PLACE OF BIRTH Chichester , West Sussex