'A spectacular day at the office': rocket successfully reaches ISS - as it happened
by Stuart Clark, Ian Sample and Ben Quinn from on (#XQZ7)
Despite some last-minute issues, the Soyuz rocket docked at the ISS, and Tim Peake, Tim Kopra and Yuri Malenchenko are boarded the ISS
8.40pm GMT
We're going to wrap it up from here now at Guardian Mission Control. We certainly enjoyed the show, and hope that you did too.
We'll leave you with some some footage from earlier of the Soyuz craft carrying Britain's first European Space Agency astronaut, Tim Peake, as it prepared to dock with the International Space Station.
8.33pm GMT
Some other messages of congratulations are coming in now. Here's the Queen's:
The Queen sends #GoodLuckTim message to #TimPeake @astro_timpeake as he joins @Space_Station #Principia #BritinSpace pic.twitter.com/KyGEjD19cQ
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