Tim Peake performs the traditional door signing at the Cosmonaut Hotel

ESA astronaut  Tim Peake performs the traditional door signing at the Cosmonaut Hotel, prior to departing the hotel for launch in a Soyuz rocket, from Baikonur, in Kazakhstan, on 15 December 2015.

Tim will leave for the International Space Station from Baikonur cosmodrome at 11:03 GMT (12:03 CET) with NASA astronaut Tim Kopra and Russian commander Yuri Malenchenko.

Follow Tim Peake and his mission via timpeake.esa.int and watch the launch live on the ESA website.