A SpaceX Dragon capsule, riding atop one of the company’s Falcon 9 rockets, carried the four Crew-10 astronauts — NASA’s Anne McClain and Nichole Ayers, Takuya Onishi of the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency,

The three astronauts and one cosmonaut of the SpaceX Crew-10 mission are on their way to the International Space Station. Liftoff went smoothly, at 7:03 p.m. ET on Friday, when a Falcon 9 rocket lifted the Dragon spacecraft,

After their flight was scrubbed on Wednesday, four astronauts successfully lifted off, which will allow two NASA astronauts to return to Earth after an unexpected extended stay in orbit.