--- title: Soyuz Launches to International Space Station description: Two astronauts and a cosmonaut are onboard canonical: https://time.com/4147792/soyuz-launch/ author: Jeffrey Kluger article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2015-12-15T10:30:54.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-02-22T13:21:07.829Z article:section: Science og:title: Soyuz Launches to International Space Station og:description: Two astronauts and a cosmonaut are onboard og:url: https://time.com/4147792/soyuz-launch/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt523c299cd70680ae/698875430b72e321956e7412/soyuz-space.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 og:image:width: 2560 og:image:height: 1440 og:image:alt: 13 Dec 2015 --- Sunday, December, 13. The Soyuz TMA-19M spaceship set on 'Gagarinsky' launchpad of Baikonur space launch complex, Kazakhstan. 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Leonid Faerberg—Global Look/Corbis  by [Jeffrey Kluger](https://time.com/author/jeffrey-kluger/)  ## Jeffrey Kluger Editor at Large Dec 15, 2015 10:30 AM UTC The sturdiest little cosmic machine ever built is easily Russia’s Soyuz spacecraft. The first one was launched in 1966—back when the Americans were flying the Gemini spacecraft—and they’ve been carrying human beings to space ever since. The next crew to take a Soyuz ride will be astronauts Tim Kopra, of NASA, and Tim Peake of the European Space Agency (ESA), along with Russian cosmonaut Yuri Malenchenko, who will blast off from Baikonur, Kazakhstan at 6:03 AM (EST) on December 15\. TIME will carry the launch live here. [**_Watch Live:_** _Astronauts Return to Earth After a Year in Space_](http://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/texas-candidate-zena-stephens-office-shot-apparent-racial-attack-n528611) Kopra, Peake and Malenchenko are heading to the International Space Station for a six-month stay. They will join astronaut Scott Kelly and cosmonauts Sergey Volkov and Mikhail Kornienko, who are already aboard. Kelly and Kornienko are more than halfway through their marathon year in space. 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