"Major Tim" Peake has a degree in flight dynamics and is a qualified test pilot.
BBC: UK astronaut Tim Peake to go to International Space Station
Now according to experts, such as Mick Peake, there are two reasons why lung cancer is such a savage killer.
The UK astronaut Tim Peake has been given a date to fly to the International Space Station (ISS).
BBC: UK astronaut Tim Peake to go to International Space Station
Forty-one-year-old Peake hails from Chichester, and is so far the only Briton ever to be accepted into the European Astronaut Corps.
BBC: UK astronaut Tim Peake to go to International Space Station
He added that there was no further update on the Peake case but said officers "had not let up" in their efforts.
He also played the role of a chef in the BBC's adaptation of Mervyn Peake's Gormenghast, in 2000 as the grotesque Swelter.
Even Tim Peake, who was recently accepted into the European Space Agency's (Esa) astronaut corps, carries no direct British funding behind him.
Actors Maxine Peake and Willem Dafoe and artist Tracey Emin have been named on the line-up for this year's Manchester International Festival.
In 2010, Major Peake - who is married with two sons - and the new intake of astronauts graduated from basic training.
BBC: Major Tim Peake says he is not too old to go into space
One of his most recent roles was in the drama Private Peaceful where he played The Colonel alongside Frances de la Tour and Maxine Peake.
Peake, who was a major and a helicopter pilot in the British Army Air Corps, has been in training for an expedition to the ISS since 2009.
BBC: UK astronaut Tim Peake to go to International Space Station
Mick Peake, for example, says that around 10% or men and 15% of women who have the disease are people - like my late wife - who have never smoked.
Lung cancer accounts for around 13% of all cancers in the UK and 22% of cancer deaths, according to Mick Peake, the clinical leader of the National Cancer Intelligence Network.
Astronauts from around the world commented and tweeted their support and congratulations to the 43-year-old Baumgartner, including British astronaut Tim Peake, NASA astronaut Nicole Stott, France astronaut Jean-Francois Clervoy, and Italian astronaut Samantha Cristoforetti.
Now Major Peake, as he waits to be assigned a space mission, is in an ongoing programme of spacesuit training, zero-g flights to "practice weightlessness" and 12-day stints 20m (65ft) under water to research "crew behaviour for long-duration missions".
BBC: Major Tim Peake says he is not too old to go into space
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