Tim Peake, the UK’s first official astronaut, along with US astronaut Tim Kopra and Russian cosmonaut Yuri Malenchenko blasted into space aboard the Soyuz rocket today.
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Tim Peake has become the first British astronaut to board the International Space Station, which will be his home for the next six months.
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Britain’s star astronaut Tim Peake has started his mission on the International Space Station (ISS) after a ideal rocket launch watched by his family.
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Fire from the boosters of the Soyuz rocket cut a bright light through the overcast sky at the cosmodrome in Kazakhstan as the spacecraft launched on schedule at 1103 GMT.
The rocket will arrive at the Russian segment of the ISS around 12:30 p.m. EST, and the hatches will open roughly two hours later.
Malenchenko, a Russian cosmonaut who turns 54 next week, will have spent more than 800 days in space by the time his sixth spaceflight ends in May, ranking him among the top three people all-time.
Expedition 46 Commander Scott Kelly of NASA and crewmates Mikhail Kornienko and Sergey Volkov of Russian Federation are now on the station. He and the other two new crewmembers will stay on board for six months working on the orbiting lab’s many experiments before returning to Earth in June on the same Soyuz spacecraft.
“It was great to watch Tim Peake blast off on his mission to join the International Space Station”, British Prime Minister David Cameron said on Twitter.
The wife of astronaut Tim Peake has spoken of her delight at the launch of the rocket carrying him into space.
The International Space Station has been in continuous operation for 15 years and requires regular maintenance.
The ISS travels at 17,500mph and Major Peake will also carry out research into the processing of new materials for use in future long term space flight, such as voyages to asteroids and Mars.
In April he will run the entire 26.2-mile London Marathon on a treadmill aboard the space station.
We’re not sure what happened here, it looks like there may have been a quick change of mind as one of the astronauts stops the other from doing something during the third stage launch process.
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Mr Duque said he could remember his first trip into space – on a Space Shuttle in 1998 – very well.
