NASA and SpaceX's Crew-11 mission is made up of two U.S. astronauts, one from Japan and a Russian cosmonaut. They'll be aboard the International Space Station for six months conducting research.

The three-man one-woman crew plans to spend at least six months and possibly longer aboard the International Space Station.

Astronauts sidelined for the past year by Boeing’s Starliner trouble blasted off to the International Space Station on Friday, getting a lift from SpaceX.The U.S.-Japanese-Russian crew of four rocketed from NASA’s Kennedy Space Center.