British astronaut Tim Peake blasts off to International Space Station – video
by Guardian Staff from on (#XRGH)
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
