A SpaceX Dragon capsule, riding atop one of the company’s Falcon 9 rockets, carried the four Crew-10 astronauts — NASA’s Anne McClain and Nichole Ayers, Takuya Onishi of the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency,

After their flight was scrubbed on Wednesday, four astronauts successfully lifted off, which will allow two NASA astronauts to return to Earth after an unexpected extended stay in orbit.

NASA and SpaceX were on track to launch NASA's Crew-10 astronauts to the space station Friday night in a mission that will also aim to return Starliner astronauts Suni Williams and Butch Wilmore.