Meet Timothy Peake, the astronaut boldly going where no Brit has gone before

Timothy Peake is 43-years-old, a former army major, and now he is set to become the first British astronaut to visit the International Space Station. When Peake blasts off on a six-month mission for the European Space Agency (ESA) in December, he will also become only the second person from the UK to leave planet Earth, after Helen Sharman travelled on a Soviet spacecraft for eight days in 1991. Speaking to ITN during a press conference at the Science Museum, Peake said that being part of the Eu