New space station crew launches from Florida on SpaceX's Crew Dragon capsule

The crew of four — two NASA astronauts, one from Canada, and a Russian cosmonaut — heads to the International Space Station after liftoff from the Cape Canaveral Space Force Station in Florida.

<img src='https://npr.brightspotcdn.com/dims3/default/strip/false/crop/4153x2769+0+0/resize/4153x2769!/?url=http%3A%2F%2Fnpr-brightspot.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fbe%2F12%2F29a56b2f41deabc5b8f65805d9f9%2Fgettyimages-2298077242.jpg' alt='A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket and Dragon spacecraft carrying NASA's Crew-13 lifts off Thursday from Cape Canaveral, Fla. SpaceX's Crew Dragon capsule "Grace" will take NASA astronauts Jessica Watkins and Luke Delaney, Canadian Space Agency astronaut Joshua Kutryk, and Roscosmos cosmonaut Sergey Teteryatnikov to the International Space Station for about six months.'/><p>The crew of four — two NASA astronauts, one from Canada, and a Russian cosmonaut — heads to the International Space Station after liftoff from the Cape Canaveral Space Force Station in Florida.</p><p>(Image credit: Justin Sullivan)</p><img src='https://media.npr.org/include/images/tracking/npr-rss-pixel.png?story=nx-s1-5987698' />