The Soyuz-FG rocket booster with Soyuz TMA-19M space ship carrying a new crew to the International Space Station, ISS, blasts off at the Russian leased Baikonur cosmodrome, Kazakhstan, Tuesday, Dec. 15, 2015.
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Peake, 43, docked the Russian Soyuz to the ISS at 12:33 p.m. ET Tuesday, a little over six hours after blasting off from a launchpad in Kazakhstan, NASA said.
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British astronaut Tim Peake has boarded the International Space Station.
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The same trio of Malenchenko, Kopra and Peake are set to return to Earth on June 5 next year.
Peake’s mission, called Principia after Isaac Newton’s seminal work, includes a number of scientific experiments, such as testing the use of nitric oxide gas as a tool to monitor lung inflammation.
Kopra had been to the space station for two months in 2009.
After the docking the team’s first activity is leak checking to make sure it had correctly joined up with the station.
A spokesman for Mission Control confirmed to AFP that the launch had gone according to plan.
After leaving the Cosmonaut Hotel, where astronauts traditionally stay before missions, Peake honored the long-standing tradition of space adventurers by signing his bedroom door.
The three-man crew is joining Expedition 46 Commander Scott Kelly of NASA and Russian Flight Engineers Mikhail Kornienko and Sergey Volkov at the ISS.
When asked on Twitter if he was disappointed that he miss the screening of the highly-anticipated film in theatres, Mr Peake revealed that he would still be catching it, in space.
Among them will be a UK-designed test to check for problems suffered by astronauts – including visual complications and sickness – caused by increased brain pressure.
He also plans to run the London Marathon while on the space station, by strapping himself to a treadmill and running at the same time as the participants on planet Earth begin running on April 24th next year.
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The hatch opened at 19:59 GMT – allowing the British, Russian and American astronauts to step out of the capsule – just over two hours after their Russian Soyuz TMA-19 capsule docked on the side.
