JOIN ASTRONAUT TIM PEAKE FOR A JOURNEY TO SPACE Tim Peake is keeping his feet firmly on the ground as he heads to Llandudno next month with his one-man show, My Journey To Space…
The British astronaut made history in 2015 as the first British astronaut to visit the International Space Station. And now fans can take orbit with Tim at the Venue Cymru on Thursday 22nd September, as he shares the secrets and science of how and why humans journey into space. My Journey To Space gives audiences a fascinating insight into life as an astronaut, complete with breath-taking photographs and never-before-seen footage. Tim Peake joined the European Space Agency in 2009, after an 18-year career in the Army. In December 2015, he became the first British astronaut to visit the International Space Station to conduct a spacewalk while orbiting Earth. as a test pilot pushing aircraft to their very limits. It was an “One thing I never anticipated in being selected for the ESA
interesting journey really and, to be honest, I sometimes felt
programme, was just how much my own experiences would
like a fraud alongside some of my ESA colleagues… They
inspire and fascinate others,” says Tim, who answers some
were those kids at four or five years old, saying ‘I want to be
popular questions below. “I will always be mesmerised by
an astronaut’. I wasn’t that child. I wanted to be a pilot, my
space and space travel, but I am just as honoured to be able to
passion was always flying – and that’s what I did.
travel the country sharing my story and experiences.” Can you tell us a little bit about My Journey To Space and what audiences can expect?
The European Space Agency chose you from more than 8,000 applicants across Europe. How did that feel?
Getting to the point of being invited to join the European Space
The tour My Journey To Space embellishes on the stories
Agency was an absolute rollercoaster of emotions. Just the
in my book, Limitless. It takes you through how I got to be
very fact that we, as UK residents, could potentially join the
where I am, doing what I do, and what it takes to become an
ESA, the fact that we could even apply to the programme was
astronaut. I’ve enjoyed an incredible journey – from military
something of great excitement to people like me. At the time, I
test flying and combat mission to living in caves and training
was working as a test pilot and there was a huge buzz among
for days underwater.
my friends and colleagues. Thousands of people applied the very first time applications opened – and out of 8,413 only
How did your journey to space begin? I did quite a bit before becoming an astronaut – had an 18year military flying career, spent time in the US, in Bosnia and Afghanistan, and
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