Inside six months aboard the International Space Station with Tim Peake

Space · Published 7 October 2026 Swipe more like this →

In short: European Space Agency Flight Engineer Tim Peake reflects on his historic mission. This video captures a session where the first British astronaut to fly on the station discusses his experience in orbit.

During a question and answer session on June 8 at the Cheltenham Science Festival in England, Tim Peake recounted his time aboard the International Space Station. As part of Expedition 47, his 186-day space journey ends when the Soyuz TMA-19M spacecraft touches down in Kazakhstan on June 18.

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