Alexander McNamara

Online Editor, BBC Science Focus

<p>It’s not all fun and games aboard the ISS playing with test tubes and taking photos of planet Earth - here some of the more unusual things Tim Peake did while in space.</p>

Ground personnel carry International Space Station (ISS) crew member Tim Peake of Britain shortly after landing near the town of Zhezkazgan, Kazakhstan, on June 18, 2016 © Shamil Zhumatov/AFP/Getty Images

It’s not all fun and games aboard the ISS playing with test tubes and taking photos of planet Earth - here some of the more unusual things Tim Peake did while in space.

Weird, wonderful and downright dull tasks Tim Peake did in space

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