An worldwide crew of 4 astronauts launched towards the International Space Station from Florida on Friday (August 1, 2025) aboard a SpaceX rocket, beating gloomy climate to embark on a routine NASA mission that might be the primary of many to final a pair months longer than common.
The four-person astronaut crew— two NASA astronauts, a Russian cosmonaut and Japanese astronaut— boarded SpaceX’s Dragon capsule sitting atop its Falcon 9 rocket at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center and blasted off at 11:43 am ET (1543 GMT). They will arrive on the ISS on Saturday (August 2, 2025).
