Astronauts Blast Off Toward International Space Station

A SpaceX rocket soared into orbit from Florida early on Friday with a crew of two U.S. NASA astronauts, a French astronaut, and a Russian cosmonaut headed to the International Space Station for an eight-month science mission in microgravity.

The two-stage Falcon 9 rocket, topped with an autonomously operated Crew Dragon capsule dubbed “Freedom,” was launched from the Cape Canaveral Space Force Station on Florida’s Atlantic Coast at about 5:15 a.m. EST.

The four crew members were set to reach the space station on Saturday afternoon after a 34-hour flight, docking with the orbiting laboratory platform some 250 miles above Earth.
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