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RE: Timothy Peake

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Astronaut Tim Peake calls wrong number from space station

UK astronaut Tim Peake has tweeted a light-hearted apology after dialling a wrong number from space and saying to a woman on the other end of the line: "Hello, is this planet Earth?"
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UK astronaut Tim Peake to run London Marathon

Tim Peake is going to run the London Marathon in space.
The British astronaut, who is about to blast off to the orbiting platform, will complete 26.2 miles on a treadmill - at the same time as athletes are pounding the streets of the UK capital.
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UK astronaut Tim Peake to go to International Space Station

The UK astronaut Tim Peake has been given a date to fly to the International Space Station (ISS). The European Space Agency (Esa) says it will release details of his mission on Monday. It will not be before 2015.
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Timothy Nigel Peake (born April 7, 1972 in Chichester, Sussex) is a former British Army Air Corps officer and a current European Space Agency astronaut. He is the first British citizen to be selected as an astronaut by ESA.
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