Timothy Peake
Timothy Nigel Peake born 7 April 1972 in Chichester. West Sussex. Upon graduation from Royal Military Academy Sandhurst in 1992, Peake served as a platoon Commander with the Royal Green Jackets. Peake became a qualified helicopter pilot in 1994 and a qualified flight instructor in 1998. In 2005, he graduated from the Empire Test Pilots School in Wiltshire and was awarded the Westland\'s Trophy for best rotary wing student. Peake completed a BSc (Hons) in Flight Dynamics & Evaluation at the University of Portsmouth the following year.[8] 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. He is the first British ESA astronaut, the sixth British-born person to visit the International Space Station (the first was NASA astronaut Michael Foale in 2003) and the seventh British-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.
Spaceflights:
No. Mission Position Time Duration
1 Soyuz TMA-19M / ISS-46 Flight Engineer 15.12.2015
Total 29d o2h 35m
