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Tim Peake

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Major Timothy Nigel Peake (born 7 April 1972) is a British Army Air Corps officer, European Space Agency astronaut and a former International Space Station (ISS) crew member. [1]

63 relations: A Sky Full of Stars, AgustaWestland, Aquanaut, Aquarius (laboratory), Army Air Corps (United Kingdom), Astronaut, Baikonur Cosmodrome, Beautiful Day, Boston Marathon, British Army, British nationality law, Caving, Chichester, Chichester High School For Boys, Climbing, Coldplay, Cross country running, Defence Helicopter Flying School, Don't Stop Me Now, Elizabeth II, Elton John, Empire Test Pilots' School, ESA CAVES, European Space Agency, Expedition 44, Expedition 46, Expedition 47, Gregory H. Johnson, Helen Sharman, International Space Station, Kurs (docking navigation system), Major (United Kingdom), Mark Shuttleworth, Mars, Michael Foale, Mir, MoD Boscombe Down, NASA, Nicholas Patrick, Nobel Peace Prize, Order of St Michael and St George, Oxford University Press, Piers Sellers, Project Juno, Queen (band), RAF Shawbury, Richard Garriott, Royal Green Jackets, Royal Military Academy Sandhurst, Shropshire, ..., Solar System, Soyuz TMA-17M, Soyuz TMA-19M, Sunita Williams, Sussex, Triathlon, U2, Underwater habitat, Union Jack, University of Portsmouth, Wiltshire, Yuri Malenchenko, 2016 London Marathon. Expand index (13 more) »

A Sky Full of Stars

"A Sky Full of Stars" is a song by the British rock band Coldplay.

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AgustaWestland

AgustaWestland (branded as Leonardo Helicopters since January 2016) was a helicopter design and manufacturing company.

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Aquanaut

An aquanaut is any person who remains underwater, breathing at the ambient pressure for long enough for the concentration of the inert components of the breathing gas dissolved in the body tissues to reach equilibrium, in a state known as saturation.

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Aquarius (laboratory)

The Aquarius Reef Base is an underwater habitat located 5.4 miles (9 kilometers) off Key Largo in the Florida Keys National Marine Sanctuary.

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Army Air Corps (United Kingdom)

The Army Air Corps (AAC) is a component of the British Army, first formed in 1942 during the Second World War by grouping the various airborne units of the British Army (which are no longer part of the AAC).

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Astronaut

An astronaut or cosmonaut is a person trained by a human spaceflight program to command, pilot, or serve as a crew member of a spacecraft.

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Baikonur Cosmodrome

Baikonur Cosmodrome (translit; translit) is a spaceport located in an area of southern Kazakhstan leased to Russia.

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Beautiful Day

"Beautiful Day" is a song by Irish rock band U2.

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Boston Marathon

The Boston Marathon is an annual marathon hosted by several cities in greater Boston in eastern Massachusetts, United States.

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British Army

The British Army is the principal land warfare force of the United Kingdom, a part of British Armed Forces.

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British nationality law

British nationality law is the law of the United Kingdom which concerns citizenship and other categories of British nationality.

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Caving

Caving – also traditionally known as spelunking in the United States and Canada and potholing in the United Kingdom and Ireland – is the recreational pastime of exploring wild (generally non-commercial) cave systems.

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Chichester

Chichester is a cathedral city in West Sussex, in South-East England.

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Chichester High School For Boys

Chichester High School for Boys, or CHSB, is a boys' secondary school with academy status, located in the city of Chichester, West Sussex, England.

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Climbing

Climbing is the activity of using one's hands, feet, or any other part of the body to ascend a steep object.

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Coldplay

Coldplay are a British rock band formed in 1996 by lead singer and pianist Chris Martin and lead guitarist Jonny Buckland at University College London (UCL).

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Cross country running

Cross country running is a sport in which teams and individuals run a race on open-air courses over natural terrain such as dirt or grass.

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Defence Helicopter Flying School

The Defence Helicopter Flying School at RAF Shawbury, a Royal Air Force station near Shrewsbury, Shropshire, England, trains aircrew from all three of the Armed Forces.

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Don't Stop Me Now

"Don't Stop Me Now" is a song by the British rock band Queen, featured on their 1978 album Jazz that was released as a single in 1979.

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Elizabeth II

Elizabeth II (Elizabeth Alexandra Mary; born 21 April 1926) is Queen of the United Kingdom and the other Commonwealth realms.

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Elton John

Sir Elton Hercules John (born Reginald Kenneth Dwight; 25 March 1947) is an English singer, pianist, and composer.

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Empire Test Pilots' School

The Empire Test Pilots' School (ETPS) is a British training school for test pilots and flight test engineers of fixed-wing and rotary-wing aircraft at MoD Boscombe Down in Wiltshire, England.

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ESA CAVES

CAVES, an acronym for Cooperative Adventure for Valuing and Exercising human behaviour and performance Skills, is a European Space Agency astronaut training course in which international astronauts train in a space-analogue cave environment.

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European Space Agency

The European Space Agency (ESA; Agence spatiale européenne, ASE; Europäische Weltraumorganisation) is an intergovernmental organisation of 22 member states dedicated to the exploration of space.

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Expedition 44

Expedition 44 was the 44th expedition to the International Space Station.

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Expedition 46

Expedition 46 was the 46th expedition to the International Space Station.

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Expedition 47

Expedition 47 was the 47th expedition to the International Space Station.

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Gregory H. Johnson

Gregory Harold "Box" Johnson (born May 12, 1962) is a NASA astronaut and a retired colonel in the United States Air Force.

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Helen Sharman

Helen Patricia Sharman, CMG, OBE, HonFRSC (born 30 May 1963) is a British chemist who became the first British astronaut and the first woman to visit the Mir space station in 1991.

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International Space Station

The International Space Station (ISS) is a space station, or a habitable artificial satellite, in low Earth orbit.

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Kurs (docking navigation system)

Kurs (Ukrainian and translit) is a radio telemetry system used by the Soviet and later Russian space program.

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Major (United Kingdom)

Major (Maj) is a military rank which is used by both the British Army and Royal Marines.

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Mark Shuttleworth

Mark Richard Shuttleworth (born 18 September 1973) is a South African entrepreneur who is the founder and CEO of Canonical Ltd., the company behind the development of the Linux-based Ubuntu operating system.

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Mars

Mars is the fourth planet from the Sun and the second-smallest planet in the Solar System after Mercury.

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Michael Foale

Colin Michael Foale (born 6 January 1957) is a British-American astrophysicist and former NASA astronaut.

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Mir

Mir (Мир,; lit. peace or world) was a space station that operated in low Earth orbit from 1986 to 2001, operated by the Soviet Union and later by Russia.

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MoD Boscombe Down

MoD Boscombe Down is the home of a military aircraft testing site, located near the town of Amesbury in Wiltshire, England.

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NASA

The National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) is an independent agency of the executive branch of the United States federal government responsible for the civilian space program, as well as aeronautics and aerospace research.

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Nicholas Patrick

Nicholas James MacDonald Patrick, Ph.D. (born 19 November 1964), is a British-American engineer and a former NASA astronaut.

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Nobel Peace Prize

The Nobel Peace Prize (Swedish, Norwegian: Nobels fredspris) is one of the five Nobel Prizes created by the Swedish industrialist, inventor, and armaments manufacturer Alfred Nobel, along with the prizes in Chemistry, Physics, Physiology or Medicine, and Literature.

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Order of St Michael and St George

The Most Distinguished Order of Saint Michael and Saint George is a British order of chivalry founded on 28 April 1818 by George, Prince Regent, later King George IV, while he was acting as regent for his father, King George III.

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Oxford University Press

Oxford University Press (OUP) is the largest university press in the world, and the second oldest after Cambridge University Press.

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Piers Sellers

Piers John Sellers OBE (11 April 1955 – 23 December 2016) was a British-American meteorologist, NASA astronaut and Director of the Earth Science Division at NASA/GSFC.

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Project Juno

Project Juno was a private British space programme which selected Helen Sharman to be the first Briton in space.

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Queen (band)

Queen are a British rock band that formed in London in 1970.

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RAF Shawbury

Royal Air Force Shawbury otherwise known as RAF Shawbury is a Royal Air Force station near the village of Shawbury in Shropshire in the West Midlands of England.

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Richard Garriott

Richard Garriott de Cayeux (born Richard Allen Garriott; July 4, 1961) is an English-American video game developer and entrepreneur.

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Royal Green Jackets

The Royal Green Jackets (RGJ) was an infantry regiment of the British Army, one of two "large regiments" within the Light Division (the other being The Light Infantry).

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Royal Military Academy Sandhurst

The Royal Military Academy Sandhurst (RMAS or RMA Sandhurst), commonly known simply as Sandhurst, is one of several military academies of the United Kingdom and is the British Army's initial officer training centre.

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Shropshire

Shropshire (alternatively Salop; abbreviated, in print only, Shrops; demonym Salopian) is a county in the West Midlands of England, bordering Wales to the west, Cheshire to the north, Staffordshire to the east, and Worcestershire and Herefordshire to the south.

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Solar System

The Solar SystemCapitalization of the name varies.

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Soyuz TMA-17M

Soyuz TMA-17M was a 2015 flight to the International Space Station.

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Soyuz TMA-19M

Soyuz TMA-19M was a 2015 Russian Soyuz spaceflight to the International Space Station.

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Sunita Williams

Sunita Pandya Williams (born September 19, 1965) is an American astronaut and United States Navy officer of Indo-Slovenian descent.

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Sussex

Sussex, from the Old English Sūþsēaxe (South Saxons), is a historic county in South East England corresponding roughly in area to the ancient Kingdom of Sussex.

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Triathlon

A triathlon is a multiple-stage competition involving the completion of three continuous and sequential endurance disciplines.

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U2

U2 are an Irish rock band from Dublin formed in 1976.

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Underwater habitat

Underwater habitats are underwater structures in which people can live for extended periods and carry out most of the basic human functions of a 24-hour day, such as working, resting, eating, attending to personal hygiene, and sleeping.

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Union Jack

The Union Jack, or Union Flag, is the national flag of the United Kingdom.

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University of Portsmouth

The University of Portsmouth is a public university in the city of Portsmouth, Hampshire, England.

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Wiltshire

Wiltshire is a county in South West England with an area of.

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Yuri Malenchenko

Yuri Ivanovich Malenchenko (Юрий Иванович Маленченко; born December 22, 1961) is a retired Russian cosmonaut.

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2016 London Marathon

The 2016 London Marathon was held on 24 April 2016.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tim_Peake

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