They will spend at least six months at the orbiting lab, swapping places with colleagues up there since March.

The four Crew-11 crew members joined seven other astronauts in the International Space Station early Saturday morning following a 15-hour journey from Florida.

NASA launched a SpaceX rocket carrying astronauts to the International Space Station. The flight includes astronauts reassigned from Boeing’s delayed Starliner mission and may extend beyond six months in space.