Docking, hatch opening and press conference for the Soyuz TMA-19M spacecraft's arrival at the International Space Station on 15 December 2015. <br /> <br />ESA astronaut Tim Peake, NASA astronaut Tim Kopra and commander Yuri Malenchenko docked with the ISS at 17:33 GMT/18:33 CET following their launch was at 11:03 GMT (12:03 CET) from Baikonur cosmodrome, Kazakhstan. <br /> <br />The trio will spend six months on the International Space Station. Tim Peake’s Principia mission includes running over 30 scientific experiments for ESA. <br /> <br />Follow Tim Peake via http://timpeake.esa.int and follow the whole mission on ESA’s Principia blog: http://blogs.esa.int/tim-peake.
