KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, Fla. – A veteran team of space explorers lifted off Friday morning from Kennedy Space Center in Florida beginning their six-month stay on the International Space Station.
NASA astronauts Shane Kimbrough and Megan McArthur, along with Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency astronaut Akihiko Hoshide and European Space Agency astronaut Thomas Pesquet launched Friday at 5:49 a.m.
in the SpaceX Crew Dragon atop the Falcon 9 rocket. They will arrive at the ISS Saturday morning. The astronauts launched in the same spacecraft called Dragon Endeavour that launched NASA astronauts Bob Behnken and Doug Hurley last year. [RELATED: Crew-2 timeline: From astronaut wakeup call to space station docking | Astronauts flying reused SpaceX