Astronaut Tim Peake has set off for the International
Space Station, where he will become the first Briton to join the crew.
Earlier today, Orthodox priests blessed the Soyuz TMA-19M
spacecraft, and Major Peake and his two colleagues – Russian commander Yuri
Malenchenko and Nasa astronaut Tim Kopra – observed a number of Russian
traditions that surround a trip to space.
At 11.03am GMT, Major Peake, watched by his two young
sons and wife Rebecca, blasted off from Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan – the
same launch spot as Soviet cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin, who became the first man to
voyage to outer space in April 1961.
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