Parents of astronaut Tim Peake: 'We wanted him to be a banker!' – video
by Guardian Staff from on (#XR15)
The mother of British astronaut Tim Peake jokes she wishes he had picked a safer profession like banking! Angela Peake speaks ahead of her son's historic launch to the International Space Station. Both his parents, Angela and Nigel, were in the auditorium along with TV crews and reporters from around the world for the space crew's final press conference before their launch from Kazakhstan. Photograph: EPA/Maxim Shipenkov
Tim Peake, Britain's first ESA astronaut, set for liftoff from Kazakhstan
