Editorial photo #967635 Human Interest

Tim Peake Space Mission

EARTH Aboard the International Space Station -- 15 Dec 2015 -- Welcome aboard!...British ESA astronaut Tim Peake, NASA astronaut Tim Kopra and Russian cosmonaut commander Yuri Malenchenko arrived at the International Space Station today, six hours after their launch at 11:03 GMT. They were welcomed aboard by Russian cosmonauts Mikhail Korniyenko and Oleg Kononenko, and NASA astronaut Scott Kelly. The Soyuz TMA-19M spacecraft docked with the Space Station at 17:33 GMT. The astronauts opened the hatch at 19:58 GMT after checking the connection between the seven-tonne Soyuz and the 400tonne Station was airtight from Baikonur Cosmodrome in a Russian TMA-19M spacecraft with commander Yuri Malenchenko from ROSCOSMOS and NASA astronaut Tim Kopra. The trio are launching into space to the International Sapce Station today and will spend six months working and living on the International Space Station -- Picture by Atlas Photo Archive/NASA *HD Video grab best quality available