Overview
- The crew consists of NASA astronauts Jessica Meir and Jack Hathaway, French astronaut Sophie Adenot, and Russian cosmonaut Andrej Fedjaew.
- Liftoff took place from Cape Canaveral, Florida, on a SpaceX Crew Dragon after several days of delay.
- The flight to the station is expected to take more than 30 hours with arrival anticipated on Saturday.
- The astronauts plan to live and conduct research on the ISS for about eight months.
- NASA has not disclosed details of January’s medical incident, which left only three on board in recent weeks: Christopher Williams, Sergej Mikaew, and Sergej Kud-Swertschkow.