A Soyuz spacecraft carrying a Russian, an American and a Briton has docked with the International Space Station, slightly more than six hours after blasting off from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan.
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Peake is accompanied by Russian space veteran Yury Malenchenko and Tim Kopra of NASA for a six-month mission for the for the European Space Agency (ESA).
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Tim Peake is not the first Brit in space – that honour went to Helen Sharman, who visited the Russian Mir space station as part of a privately contracted assignment over 20 years past.
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A rocket carrying Britain’s first astronaut Major Tim Peake is on route to the International Space station.
Peake says he’s also looking forward to microgravity experiments inspired by Isaac Newton.
The cohort of three astronauts in the Soyuz was set to dock with the ISS at 5.24PM before climbing aboard the ISS, however all did not go to plan on the first approach.
The otherwise smooth journey ended with a slightly delayed docking at 6.33 am, NZ time, as Russian commander Yuri Malenchenko aborted the automatic procedure and manually guided the spacecraft toward the station.
Peake’s mission, Principia, centres on dozens of scientific experiments to explore how the body adapts to space, how advanced materials form in weightless conditions, and trialling new technologies, including remote control systems for operating rovers on planetary surfaces.
Kopra took the picture back in 2009 and Echo & The Bunnymen returned the goodwill today well wishing Tim Peake and Tim Kopra safe trips to the ISS.
Asked for a message for the young people who watched the launch, he said: “I hope you enjoyed the show”.
But they made it, and Peake is now beginning his six-month stay aboard the space station. The landing and onboarding of the three new astronauts aboard the International Space Station will be streamed live on NASA TV later today.
The ISS space laboratory has been orbiting the Earth at roughly 28,000 kilometres per hour since 1998.
Astronaut Tim Peake will under 10 gruelling exercise sessions each week he is on the ISS to maintain his strength, bones and fitness.
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Lift off occurred from the same launch pad where, in 1961, Yuri Gagarin became the first human in space.
