Tim Peake gives the thumbs up from the cockpit as he blasts off into space. The Russian Soyuz rocket was launched from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan at 11.03am GMT on Tuesday on its six-hour journey to the International Space Station. He will spend six months on the ISS, making him Britain’s first European Space Agency astronaut on board the orbiting station
Tim Peake: Soyuz reaches orbit heading for ISS after successful launch - live
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Source: theguardian.com