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| Briton Tim Peake blasts off for space | Briton Tim Peake blasts off for space |
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| The rocket carrying Briton Tim Peake on his landmark flight to the International Space Station has launched from Kazakhstan. | The rocket carrying Briton Tim Peake on his landmark flight to the International Space Station has launched from Kazakhstan. |
| The Soyuz space capsule is carrying Russian Yuri Malenchenko, American Tim Kopra and "Major Tim", who will spend six months on the station. | |
| The former army pilot is making history as the first official UK astronaut. | |
| Lift off occurred from the launch pad where, in 1961, Yuri Gagarin became the first human in space. | |
| Tim Peake Live: latest updates and video from the launch | Tim Peake Live: latest updates and video from the launch |
| Mr Peake will spend seven months on board the ISS where he will conduct a programme of scientific experiments and participate in educational activities designed to attract young people into science. | |
| Zero gravity was reached by the Soyuz spacecraft after nine minutes of travel. | |
| Docking at the ISS is scheduled to take place at 17:24 GMT (23:24 local time). | |
| Tim Peake in space: Want to know more? | |
| Tim Peake live: Launch day live video and updates | |
| Special report page: For the latest news, analysis and video | |
| Video: How the view from space affects your mind | |
| Explainer: The journey into space | |
| Social media: Twitter looks ahead to lift-off | |
| Earlier, Mr Peake said goodbye to his family and friends including his wife, Rebecca, and two sons, Thomas, six and Oliver, four. | |
| The Chichester-born man is the first Briton to join the crew of the ISS and is employed by the European Space Agency (Esa). | |
| On arrival, he and his two companions will join the trio already on board, including Nasa astronaut Scott Kelly who is spending a year on the orbiting station as part of a medical research programme. | |
| Other Britons who have flown into space did so either as private individuals - Richard Garriott and Mark Shuttleworth - or by taking US citizenship and joining Nasa - the astronauts Piers Sellers and Nicholas Patrick. | |
| Another British-born Nasa astronaut, Michael Foale, already had dual citizenship through his US mother. | |
| Helen Sharman became the first British citizen to travel to space when she visited the Soviet space station Mir in 1991. | |
| Earlier, Ms Sharman told BBC News: "Tim has trained for six years, so he will know the spacecraft and the space station inside out. | |
| "Whatever situation is thrown at him, he'll be well equipped to deal with it." |