The Soyuz TMA-19M spacecraft was rolled out by train on 13 December 2015 from the MIK 112 integration facility to Baikonur cosmodrome’s launch pad 1, in Kazakhstan.
ESA astronaut Tim Peake was launched to the International Space Station on 15 December with NASA astronaut Tim Kopra and Russian commander Yuri Malenchenko.
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