Flight Engineer Tim Peake of the European Space Agency discussed the accomplishments of his half-year mission on the orbital laboratory, during an in-flight interview with CNN International’s Christiane Amanpour on May 24.

Aboard the International Space Station, Expedition 47 Flight Engineer Tim Peake of the European Space Agency discussed the accomplishments of his half-year mission on the orbital laboratory, during an in-flight interview with CNN International’s Christiane Amanpour on May 24. Peake, who is the first British citizen to fly on the space station, will be returning to Earth June 18 aboard a Russian Soyuz spacecraft for a landing in south central Kazakhstan.