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 Crew-10 mission includes NASA astronauts Anne McClain and Nichole Ayers, as well as JAXA mission specialist Takuya Onishi and Roscosmos cosmonaut Kirill Peskov. The crew will spend several months aboard the ISS conducting experiments, research, and performing spacewalks.

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,