Press conference with ESA astronaut Tim Peake after return to Earth

Tim Peake, NASA astronaut Tim Kopra and Russian Soyuz commander Yuri Malenchenko will return to Earth on Saturday 18 June after six months in space. After a three-hour journey in their Soyuz spacecraft, they will land on the Kazakh steppe at 09:00 GMT (11:00 CEST).

Tim will continue his journey to the European Astronaut Centre (EAC), the home base of all ESA astronauts, in Cologne, Germany. ESA’s medical team will monitor how he readapts to gravity after months in weightlessness.

Tim will spend his first night back on Earth at the Envihab facility of the DLR German Aerospace Center, where scientists have gathered to continue the science programme, collecting data on Tim’s rehabilitation phase.

Programme and accreditation

The press conference at EAC starts at 11:00 GMT (13:00 CEST). ESA experts will be available for interviews. For operational reasons, there will be no one-to-one interviews with Tim.