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SpaceX launched four astronauts from NASA’s Kennedy Space Center early Friday on the company’s third mission carrying humans to the International Space Station.

As the second long-duration mission flying via SpaceX Crew Dragon, the four astronauts — two American, one Japanese and one European — make up the Crew-2 mission.

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NASA astronauts Shane Kimbrough and Megan McArthur, along with Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency astronaut Akihiko Hoshide and European Space Agency astronaut Thomas Pesquet launched Friday at 5:49 a.m. in the SpaceX Crew Dragon atop the Falcon 9 rocket.

The astronauts are now traveling in the Dragon Endeavour to the space station and will arrive Saturday morning.

Central Floridians were watching the sky Friday morning as the Crew-2 mission launched from the Space Coast.

Here are some of the best photos of the mission:

SpaceX’s Falcon 9 rocket, with Crew Dragon atop, as seen above Tomorrowland in Magic Kingdom Park at Walt Disney World Resort in Lake Buena Vista, Fla., after launching early Friday morning, April 23, 2021, from NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida. ((Kent Phillips, photographer))

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