On 15 December 2015, ESA astronaut Tim Peake will be launched to the International Space Station from Baikonur Cosmodrome, Kazakhstan, on a Russian Soyuz spacecraft.
In this video, Tim and fellow Expedition 46-47 crewmembers, NASA astronaut Timothy Kopra and Roscosmos cosmonaut Yuri Malenchenko and their backup crew are seen leaving Star City, near Moscow, before boarding a plane for the launch site on 30 November 2015.
Named after Isaac Newton’s text Naturalis Principia Mathematica, Tim’s “Principia” mission will be the eighth ESA long-duration mission to the International Space Station. He will spend six months on orbit carrying out an intensive schedule of European and international experiments, in addition to numerous educational activities.
Tim Peake and his mission via
