Spaceman Tim comes travelling again with new tour exploring wonders of the cosmos

BRITISH astronaut Tim Peake will bring “the awe and wonder of space travel past, present and future” to Derby with his latest tour.

- By TELEGRAPH REPORTER

Astronauts: The Quest To Explore Space comes to the new Becketwell Live arena on October 11, after another stop in Derbyshire, at Buxton Opera House on September 23.

Tim made history in 2015 when he became the first British astronaut to visit the International Space Station (ISS), where he spent six months living and working in space, completing a spacewalk and even running a marathon.

And now he is looking forward to a potential return to space, as part of a commercially sponsored UK mission which could see him return to the ISS.

His tour brings to life the adventures of astronauts in a celebration of human space flight and gives a fascinating insight into what lies ahead.

“It’s like the greatest hits of space exploration, with amazing footage and behind the scenes stories of what it’s really like to leave our planet,’ Tim said.

The tour follows his debut, My Journey To Space in 2021-2023, where Tim told his personal story of space flight.

But in Astronauts: The Quest To Explore Space, which debuted last autumn, he will look back on the broader history of human space exploration - jetting across England, Scotland and Wales to 28 new venues, due to huge popular demand, in September and October.

“This tour is fast-paced, fun and entertaining,’ Tim said.

“It showcases the extraordinary endeavour of human spaceflight; the excitement, the drama, the highs and lows, right from the early days of the 1950s, through to the current Artemis program to return to the Moon, and beyond to the first human mission to Mars.

“My previous tour was very much my own personal story. But there are around 650 people who have been into space - and this tour allows me to share some of their many amazing stories of human spaceflight.