Britain’s first official astronaut has just made it into spaceon his way to the International Space Station (ISS). Time Peake isn’t the first British person to go into space, but he is the first astronaut from the UK space programme to make it into orbit—every other Brit astronaut has either had US citizenship and worked with NASA, or had private funiding. But Tim is fully repping the UK.
His rocket set off at 11:03 GMT from a launch site in in Kazakhstan.
Peake will also be the first UK resident of the ISS. He’s joined on the Russian rocket by with American Tim Kopra and Russian Yuri Malenchenko, and will spend his time on the ISS conducting experiments.
David Cameron also gave him a shout-out.
