British astronaut Tim Peake has boarded the spacecraft that will return him to Earth following an historic six-month mission to the space station.

Major Peake, Russian cosmonaut Yuri Malenchenko and US astronaut Timothy Kopra made their farewells and entered the Soyuz TMA-19M.

The Russian space capsule will carry them home from the International Space Station - they are expected to land in Kazakhstan at 10:15 BST on Saturday.