Tim Peake is a European Space Agency (ESA) astronaut of British nationality. He finished his 186-day Principia mission working on the International Space Station for Expedition 46/47 when he landed back on Earth 18 June 2016.

Tim Peake is safely back on the ground but by all accounts very eager to return to space. Congratulations Tim, the U.K space agency and well done ESA.

Some links to follow here to keep up with Tim and the Principia mission and all that is to follow on as a result of this successful mission; If you can suggest others please use our contact page. 

Tim Peake ESA

Tim Peake Twitter

Rocket lettuce seeds project - closed, results to follow.

STEM resources

To contact Tim you can do so by writing to him at:

ESA Astronaut Tim Peake. c/o ESA/EAC Linder Hoehe D-51147 Cologne Germany

If you want to organise a conference or interview an astronaut please fill in the ESA request form which can be found at https://paros.eac.esa.int/

Thank you.