Tim Peake

Major Timothy Nigel Peake 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, 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.