Soyuz rocket with 3 crew members docks with ISS
Three astronauts have arrived at the International Space Station (ISS) after a 6-hour journey from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan.
Yuri Malenchenko from Russia, Tim Kopra from the US and Tim Peake from Britain left the Earth on a Soyuz spacecraft on Tuesday. The trio will return home on June 5, 2016.
The docking process was slightly delayed as the Soyuz commander, Malenchenko, aborted the automatic procedure and manually guided the spacecraft towards the station.
The 43-year-old Peake is the first astronaut representing the British government, whose six-month mission for the European Space Agency (ESA) includes a number of scientific experiments and educational projects designed to attract young people into science.
Peake and his two travelling companions joined Nasa astronaut Scott Kelly and Russian cosmonauts Mikhail Kornienko and Sergey Volkov on board the ISS.
The International Space Station is the largest artificial body in orbit, which can often be seen with the naked eye from the Earth.
The ISS is used as a research laboratory, where astronauts conduct experiments in various fields, such as biology, human biology, physics, astronomy and meteorology.
It is the ninth space station to be inhabited by crews, following the Soviet and Russian Salyut, Almaz, and Mir stations as well as Skylab from the US.
The ISS has been continuously occupied since November 2, 2000, setting a record for the longest continuous human presence in space.
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