British astronaut and space marathoner Tim Peake lands on Earth after historic space station trip

Tim Peake, Yuri Malenchenko, and Tim Kopra land from the International Space Station in Kazakhstan — (Image credit: Handout/Getty Images)

Completing Britain's first trip to the International Space Station (ISS), astronaut Tim Peake has landed back on Earth.

Peake was in space for six months with American Timothy Kopra and Russian Yuri Malenchenko, during which time he became the first person to run a marathon in space while tied to a treadmill. (He finished the 26.2-mile race in 3 hours, 35 minutes, during which time the ISS traveled around the planet more than twice.)

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Bonnie Kristian was a deputy editor and acting editor-in-chief of TheWeek.com. She is a columnist at Christianity Today and author of Untrustworthy: The Knowledge Crisis Breaking Our Brains, Polluting Our Politics, and Corrupting Christian Community (forthcoming 2022) and A Flexible Faith: Rethinking What It Means to Follow Jesus Today (2018). Her writing has also appeared at Time Magazine, CNN, USA Today, Newsweek, the Los Angeles Times, and The American Conservative, among other outlets.