{"id":1990,"date":"2024-04-12T15:05:59","date_gmt":"2024-04-12T15:05:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dailywashingtoninsider.com\/index.php\/2024\/04\/12\/british-astronaut-tim-peake-hopes-to-return-to-space-with-first-all-uk-mission-to-international-space-station\/"},"modified":"2024-04-12T15:05:59","modified_gmt":"2024-04-12T15:05:59","slug":"british-astronaut-tim-peake-hopes-to-return-to-space-with-first-all-uk-mission-to-international-space-station","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dailywashingtoninsider.com\/index.php\/2024\/04\/12\/british-astronaut-tim-peake-hopes-to-return-to-space-with-first-all-uk-mission-to-international-space-station\/","title":{"rendered":"British astronaut Tim Peake hopes to return to space with first all-UK mission to International Space Station"},"content":{"rendered":"
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British astronaut Tim Peake hopes to take an all-British crew to the International Space Station (ISS), he has revealed to Sky’s FYI children’s news show.<\/p>\n

“Possibly as early as next year, we’re taking four astronauts back [to the ISS<\/strong>] to do lots of science and lots of education outreach,” he said.<\/p>\n

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The 52-year-old became the first Briton to complete a spacewalk outside the ISS in 2016 and is one of only two astronauts Britain has ever sent to space.<\/p>\n

“We’re hoping to announce the whole crew in June this year,” he told FYI.<\/p>\n

Asked if he would be part of that mission, Major Peake replied: “Well, I very much hope so.”<\/p>\n

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Major Peake announced his decision to retire from being a European Space Agency<\/strong> (ESA) astronaut in January last year.<\/p>\n

The UK Space Agency signed an agreement with Axiom Space in October, which could lead to the first all-UK mission to space.<\/p>\n

The mission would see British astronauts spend a fortnight in orbit to carry out research and UK universities have been asked to share ideas for experiments which could be carried out in space during the time.<\/p>\n

It would be a commercially sponsored trip, supported by the ESA.<\/p>\n

Axiom, the US-based company working on the mission, is also trying to build the first commercial space station.<\/p>\n

The company says the new station will “advance progress on Earth toward a sustained presence off the planet”.<\/p>\n

Major Peake seemed content to live on planet Earth though.<\/p>\n

“If you lived on Mars, you would have to spend all your time in a pressurised habitat, protected from the Martian atmosphere and the Martian storms and the temperatures and the radiation,” he said.<\/p>\n

“We will be able to [live on other planets] at some point in the future, but I still think Earth is going to be the planet that we want to live on.”<\/p>\n<\/p>\n

This post appeared first on sky.com<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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