Member of the International Space Station expedition 46/47, British ESA astronaut Timothy Peake gestures to his children during a sending-off ceremony at the Baikonur cosmodrome in Kazakhstan on 15 December 2015, before travelling on board the Soyuz TMA-19M spacecraft to the International Space Station (ISS). Photo: Reuters Baikonur, December 15 Tim Peake, the first Briton to travel to the International Space Station, blasted off today from the Baikonur cosmodrome with Russian space veteran Yury Malenchenko and Tim Kopra of NASA for a six-month mission. Fire from the boosters of the Soyuz TMA-19M rocket cut a bright light through the overcast …read more
Source: The Himalayan Times
