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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 ...
Also: United Kingdom: People: By occupation: Explorers: Astronauts. Pages in category "British astronauts" The following 13 pages are in this category, out of 13 total.
Colin Michael Foale CBE (/ f oʊ l /; born 6 January 1957) is a British-American astrophysicist and a former NASA astronaut. [1] He is a veteran of six space missions, and is the only NASA astronaut to have flown extended missions aboard both Mir and the International Space Station. He was the second Briton in space and the first to perform a ...
No experience necessary.” [5] The programme was known as Project Juno and was a cooperative Soviet–British mission co-sponsored by a group of British companies. [6] Its aim was to enhance the relationship between the UK and the Soviet Union in the twilight years of the Cold War by sending a British astronaut to the Mir space station. [5]
Despite this, on 9 October 2008, British Science and Innovation Minister Lord Drayson spoke favourably of the idea of a British astronaut. [46] Army Air Corps test pilot Tim Peake became a member of the European Astronaut Corps in 2009, [ 47 ] and then in 2015 the first astronaut funded by the British government when he reached the ...
February 12 – Saudi Astronaut Group 2 (Saudi Arabia) [65] Rayyanah Barnawi, Ali AlQarni, Mariam Fardous, Ali AlGhamdi. Two of the Saudi astronauts will participate in Axiom Mission 2. March 8 – Australian Astronaut Group 1 (Australia) Katherine Bennell-Pegg. April – Turkish Astronaut (Group 1) [66] Alper Gezeravcı, Tuva Cihangir Atasever
The flags indicate the astronaut's primary citizenship during his or her time as an astronaut. The symbol identifies female astronauts. The symbol indicates astronauts who have left low Earth orbit. The symbol indicates astronauts who have walked on the Moon. The symbol † indicates astronauts who have died in incidents related to a space program.
Piers John Sellers OBE (11 April 1955 – 23 December 2016) was a British-American meteorologist, NASA astronaut [1] and Director of the Earth Science Division at NASA/GSFC.He was a veteran of three Space Shuttle missions.