An international crew of four astronauts launched toward the International Space Station from Florida on Friday aboard a SpaceX rocket, embarking on a routine Nasa mission that could be the first of many to last a couple months longer than usual.
The four-person 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 Centre
