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.