Tim Peake is a former ESA astronaut
who spent 185 days on the International Space Station (ISS)
between December 2015 and June 2016.
Peake ran the 2016 London Marathon from the ISS treadmill on 24 April 2016,
matching the efforts of Sunita Williams, who ran the 2007 Boston Marathon from the ISS!
Peake is also an author, with his most recent book,
The Cosmic Diary of our Incredible Universe, being published last year.
Peake has been working with the UK's Channel 5 on a documentary, and
visited Inyarrimanha Ilgari Bundara, CSIRO's Murchison Radio-astronomy Observatory,
earlier this year. The image above is a still from a video on Tim's twitter feed.
(Image credit: @astro_timpeake, Channel 5)
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