Astronaut Tim Peake believes in aliens and wants to get to Mars to find them
BRITAIN'S first astronaut aboard the International Space Station (ISS) believes aliens exist and we may be close to confirming the first discovery.
Major Tim Peake, 43, who this week blasted off to the ISS is hopeful scientists will son be able to say if life exists elsewhere on away or the other.
He said: "I would be very surprised if there wasn't life elsewhere in the universe.
"There is a high chance we will soon discover there was - or is - life in our solar system."
The British astronaut is already looking forward to the possibility of landing on the moon and then the Red Planet.
He said: "Single-cell life forms might be found on Mars."
I would be very surprised if there wasn't life elsewhere in the universe. "There is a high chance we will soon discover there was - or is - life in our solar system.
Major Peake is also hopeful there could be simple life forms within the interiors of Pluto, and moons of Saturn, where is believed they have vast sub-surface oceans.
He said: "Wherever there is water, there is the possibility of life."
Tim Peake boards International Space Station
At a press conference before blast off he said: "This isn't a one off mission
"We have a serious project in the European Space Station to land on the moon, and that is part of an exploration of the solar system that will eventually take us to Mars.”