British Astronaut Tim Peake Blasts Into Space

A rocket has blasted off carrying British astronaut Major Tim Peake to the International Space Station (ISS). He took off in the Soyuz FG rocket at 11.03am UK time from the Baikonur Cosmodrome, Kazakhstan along with his two colleagues – Russian commander Yuri Malenchenko and NASA astronaut Tim Kopra. Zero gravity was reached by the Soyuz spacecraft after nine minutes of travel.