The exciting future of space exploration, Tim Peake, astronaut

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🗓️ 21 July 2025

⏱️ 32 minutes

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Summary

Tim Peake, British astronaut, discusses his experience on his mission on the International Space Station, how modern space exploration is changing with the advent of private companies like SpaceX and why humanity is only scratching the surface of the scientific value that can come from in-orbit experimentation.

A British European Space Agency astronaut and ambassador at the Festival of Speed Future Lab, Peake flew to the International Space Station in 2015 and has spent almost 200 days in space. Peake discusses the political nature of space travel and the exciting future of the burgeoning space tech industry.

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0:00.0	It's an incredible thing to actually kind of look back at your home planet and just think,
0:12.3	that's it.
0:13.3	You know, that's where life as we know it, that's where it's all evolved until we find
0:18.0	it elsewhere in the universe.
0:25.6	So what we could be seeing now, fast forward in a hundred years time, is a global transportation system that can take you from London to Sydney in an hour, maybe,
0:31.6	and we might trace its roots back to those Blue Origin and Virgin Galactic flights
0:35.6	that really started paving the way.
0:47.3	But SpaceX and Elon Musk has not hidden the fact that his ambition is to get to Mars and to put humans on Mars. And I do think that's possible, it's feasible, and it's something that we should eventually do.
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1:26.7	Hello and welcome to the UKTM podcast, a weekly chat with the movers and shakers of the UK tech industry and the destination for all things UK tech related.
1:36.3	I am your host, Jane Wakefield, and today I am joined by quite a special guest.
1:40.9	I mean, I don't like to give my guests' favourite spots, but it might be somebody
1:45.8	you're all familiar with, Tim Peek. And if you don't know who Tim Peake is, I will tell you, he's a
1:51.3	retired European Space Agency astronaut. Welcome, Tim. Hello, Jane. Great to join you today.
1:57.1	Great to have you on. Now, I mean, you must have answered this question a thousand times
2:03.0	more, but let's start with you telling me a little bit about your experiences and astronaut,
2:09.8	and most specifically that now very famous visit to the International Space Station. Yes,
2:14.9	so I became an astronaut in 2009 when I was selected by the European
2:19.7	Space Agency and that followed a year-long selection process. And it was quite a unique event
2:24.9	because it was the first time that the European Space Agency had opened up the access,
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