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Expedition 46-47 crewmember Tim Peake of the European Space Agency during the pre-launch press conference, on 14 December 2015, at Baikonour.
Tim will leave for the International Space Station from Baikonur cosmodrome in Kazakhstan on 15 December at 11:03 GMT (12:03 CET) with NASA astronaut Tim Kopra and Russian commander Yuri Malenchenko.
Follow Tim Peake and his mission via timpeake.esa.int and watch the launch live on the ESA website.