Tim Peake

Full Disclosure with James O'Brien

Global

Society & Culture

4.6 • 3.5K Ratings

🗓️ 19 October 2023

⏱️ 62 minutes

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Summary

In 2008, Tim Peake answered an advert from the European Space Agency looking for astronauts. Six years later he became the first British astronaut to visit the International Space Station and carry out a spacewalk.

But Tim didn't always want to be an astronaut. As a child, he fell in love with flying and pursued a career in aviation. He progressed from the school Cadet Corps to the Royal Military Academy at Sandhurst and then into the Army Air Corps. By the time Tim retired from the British Army as a major, he was regarded as a highly talented, hugely professional pilot. Just the kind of person the European Space Agency was looking for.

After his six-month space mission, Tim returned to the UK to work and engage students in STEM. This year, he became the European Space Agency's first honorary STEM ambassador. He has also written several best-selling books and hosted a TV series about space.

Tim Peake’s latest book Space: The Human Story is out now published by Penguin. For more info visit: https://www.penguin.co.uk/authors/239553/tim-peake

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0:00.0	Okay, it's time to start...
0:03.0	Organizing my paperclips.
0:06.0	Studying for my exam tomorrow?
0:08.0	Yeah, it's definitely time to have some gum and start on...
0:11.0	Deep cleaning the whole apartment.
0:14.0	Studying. For the exam, that's tomorrow.
0:17.0	Or I can scrub the floor route.
0:20.0	Oh! Finally, Chou can do it. tomorrow. Or I can scrub the floor route.
0:21.4	Come!
0:25.5	Finally, Chew can do it, Sam.
0:28.1	Chew can do it.
0:29.0	Extra gun.
0:29.5	Chew.
0:29.9	Good.
0:35.7	This is a global player original podcast.
0:58.6	Hello and welcome to full disclosure, a podcast project designed to let me spend more time than I'd ever get on the radio with fascinating people.
1:05.3	And I often open these interviews by saying, and my subject this week certainly fits the description of a fascinating person.
1:11.5	But Tim Peek, you are one of those people whose name automatically conjures up a degree of knowledge.
1:15.1	It is Tim Peake, the astronaut, isn't it?
1:18.5	Yeah, that worries me because then I feel like I have to live up to it now.
1:21.3	Well, I think you've had plenty of practice.
1:23.1	You've also, of course, professionally been an Apache pilot, a flight instructor and a test pilot,
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