Soyuz TMA-19M spacecraft roll out

The Soyuz TMA-19M spacecraft is rolled out by train, on 13 December 2015, from the MIK 112 integration facility to the Baikonur Cosmodrome launch pad 1, in Kazakhstan.

ESA astronaut Tim Peake left 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.