Major Timothy Nigel “Tim” Peake CMG is a British Army Air Corps officer, European Space Agency astronaut and a former International Space Station crew member.
He is the first British ESA astronaut, the second astronaut to bear a flag of the United Kingdom patch, the sixth person born in the United Kingdom to go on board the International Space Station and the seventh UK-born person in space. He began the ESA's intensive astronaut basic training course in September 2009 and graduated on 22 November 2010.