Principia docking and ingress highlights

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Docking, hatch opening and press conference for the Soyuz TMA-19M spacecraft's arrival at the International Space Station on 15 December 2015.

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.

The trio will spend six months on the International Space Station. Tim Peake’s Principia mission includes running over 30 scientific experiments for ESA.

Follow Tim Peake via http://timpeake.esa.int and follow the whole mission on ESA’s Principia blog: http://blogs.esa.int/tim-peake.

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