Tim Peake is the first British European Space Agency astronaut to arrive at the International Space Station.
Peaker, 43 years old, docked at the Russian Soyuz to the International Space Station, more than six hours after blasting off from a Launchpad in Kazakhstan.
The former test pilot will spend the next six months orbiting the earth. The crew is due to land back on earth on June 6, 2016.
He lifted off from Pad 1 at the Baikonur Cosmodrome on the Soyuz TMA-19M spacecraft. The same Launchpad was used by Sputnik, the first satellite and Russia's Yuri Gagarin, the first human in space.
"Last tweet before launch - GO for flight! Thanks for all the good luck messages - phenomenal support! #Principia," Peake posted in his Twitter account.
Joining the British Army Air Corps officer are NASA astronaut Tim Kopra and Russian commander and cosmonaut Yuri Malenchenko. Both are veterans of space flight who have already worked on the International Space Station.
"It was a beautiful launch. That first sunrise was absolutely spectacular. We also got the benefit of a moon rise which was beautiful to see," Tim Peake said from the International Space Station according to BBC News.
The ISS has been occupied since November 2000.
The astronauts are part of the European Space Agency's Principia Mission which will run experiments and test new technologies for future space explorations according to Mashable. He hopes to inspire the next generation to take interest in engineering, mathematics, science and technology.
"Tim is a fantastic astronaut. He is very friendly, very calm, very cool, he thinks things through logically but does that with a smile on his face," Libby Jackson, Astronaut Flight Education Programme Manager for the UK Space Agency, said. He was picked from more than 8,000 people after passing a rigorous selection process.
While Tim Peake makes history as the first British to visit the International Space Station, Helen Sharman is the first Brit astronaut to travel to space in 1991.
