Britain's Tim Peake steps down from ESA astronaut corps

Paris (AFP) Jan 20, 2023

Britain's Tim Peake has hung up his spacesuit, stepping down from Europe's astronaut corps to become an ambassador for space activities, the European Space Agency said on Friday. Peake, who became the first British astronaut to visit the International Space Station in 2015, said it had been an "incredibly exciting and rewarding" 13 years. "Being an ESA astronaut has been the most extraor