The Life Scientific - Tim Peake

科学人生 - 蒂姆·佩克

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2025-07-01

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What's it like living underwater for two weeks? What's the trickiest part of training to be an astronaut? What are the most memorable sights you see from space? Several extreme questions, all of which can be answered by one man: Major Tim Peake. After a childhood packed with outdoor adventures, via the Cub Scouts and school Cadet Force, Tim joined the British Army Air Corps and became a military flying instructor then a test pilot; before eventually being selected as a European Space Agency (ESA) astronaut. In 2015, Tim became the first British ESA astronaut to visit the International Space Station. Over the course of a six-month mission, he took part in more than 250 scientific experiments and worked with more than two million schoolchildren across Europe. In a special New Year’s episode recorded in front of an audience at London’s Royal Society, Professor Jim Al-Khalili talks to Tim about his lifelong passion for adventure, the thrill of flight and why scientific experiments in space are so important. Presented by Jim Al-Khalili Produced by Lucy Taylor

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Hello and thank you
for joining me here at London's Royal Society for a special end of the year edition of The Life Scientific.
My guest today is an aeronaut, aquanaut and astronaut.
He's flown through the skies, lived under the sea and soared through space.
After a childhood via the Cub Scouts and school cadet force,
Tim Peay joined the British Army Air Corps before eventually being selected from thousands of hopefuls to train as an astronaut.
In 2015,
Tim visited the International Space Station for a six-month mission during which he became the first ever British astronaut to complete a spacewalk and took part in more than 250 scientific experiments.
He also found time while in orbit to present the singer Adele with the Brit Award,
launch the BBC's Six Nations rugby coverage, and run the London Marathon on a treadmill.
Major Tim Peake, welcome to The Life Scientific.
Thank you very much, Jim.
It's great to be here.
Thank you.
Well, Tim Peake, let's find out about what made you the sort of man who goes into space.
You were born in Chichester in 1972 and grew up in West Sussex.
What was your childhood like?
I had a brilliant childhood.
I think I described it in my autobiography as ordinary,

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