
Photo Credit: (NASA/Joel Kowsky)
The Soyuz TMA-19M rocket is launched with Expedition 46 Soyuz Commander Yuri Malenchenko of the Russian Federal Space Agency (Roscosmos), Flight Engineer Tim Kopra of NASA, and Flight Engineer Tim Peake of ESA (European Space Agency), Tuesday, Dec. 15, 2015 at the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan.

Credit: ESA-Stephane Corvaja
Malenchenko, Kopra, and Peake will spend the next six months living and working aboard the International Space Station.

Image credit: NASA

Image Credit: NASA/Joel Kowsky

Credit: ESA-Stephane Corvaja
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