The International Space Station will have a new three-man crew, who left earth aboard the Russian Soyuz TMA-19M rocket on Tuesday.
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This is a landmark mission for Peake of the European Space Agency (ESA), as it marks the first time a publically funded British astronaut has traveled to the ISS.
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He’ll also earn the distinction of being the first British astronaut to visit the International Space Station.
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But the rocket will be fired up and tested on the ground to ensure that it technically would work in the event of a second launch. The mission, capped by delivery of all 11 satellites to orbit for launch customer ORBCOMM , unfolded in just over 30 minutes.
There were some complications with the Soyuz rocket that carried Peake, Yuri Malenchenko of Russian Federation, and Tim Kopra from the US, up to the space station.
The current occupants of the space station welcomed them to their new home: Russians Mikhail Kornienko and Sergei Volkov, and American Scott Kelly. “And we also got the benefit of a moonrise on the first orbit as well, which was lovely to see”, said Tim Peake who is a European Space Agency Astronaut.
They joined three astronauts now on board the platform, which has been continuously occupied since November 2000.
Scots were able to take in views of the International Space Station yesterday, as it passed twice over the UK.
The crew will take six hours to rendezvous with the International Space Station, which passed directly over the launch site just before lift-off.
Once in space, Major Peake and the other crew members moved from the cramped middle section of the Soyuz space capsule into the slightly more spacious spherical “orbital module” which attaches to the space station.
Their space flight was launched at 6:03:09 AM EST from the Baikonur Cosmodrome, which is located in Kazakhstan.
The crew will spend six months performing a variety of experiments and tests for researchers.
The 43-year-old Briton looked at the on-board video camera and gave a thumbs up gesture as the spacecraft completed its first booster stage and the boosters fell away.
Former helicopter pilot Time Peake joins an American and Russian aboard Soyuz spacecraft for 171-day mission.
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After leaving the Cosmonaut Hotel, where astronauts traditionally stay before missions, Peake honoured the long-standing tradition of space adventurers by signing his bedroom door.
