Tim Nash - Astronaut 015

Timothy Nash is an entrepreneur, adventurer, conservationist and member of the Hubbard Council of The National Geographic Society. Born in South Africa and with a love of aviation and science, Timothy has dreamed of going to space, since purchasing his ticket on Virgin Galactic in 2006.

This dream is now being realized, along with a historic “first” as he will be carrying two fossils of Human ancestors with him to space – the clavicle (collar bone) of the almost 2-million-year-old Australopithecus sediba and a thumb bone of Homo naledi, dated to about 250,000 years ago. Both fossils were discovered in the Cradle of Humankind, a UNESCO World Heritage Site near to Johannesburg in South Africa. This symbolic journey will be a fitting tribute to two species whose own explorations and endeavours, helped to give us the faculties and technologies to undertake the ultimate human journey - the journey into space.

Tim wears a DNA tattoo on his leg —Virgin Galactic’s DNA of Flight.