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The crew is making the trip in SpaceX's Dragon space capsule.
It will take them about 34 hours to reach the station and dock.
Once at the station, the crew is scheduled to spend eight months living and working aboard.
This mission replaces a crew that left the station early.
A health issue with one of the astronauts prompted the first medical evacuation of the station last month.
Since then, the station has been operating with a reduced crew of three.
For NPR News, I'm Brendan Byrne in Orlando.
The international crew is made up of two U.S.
astronauts, one from France and a Russian cosmonaut.
The crew is making the trip in SpaceX's Dragon space capsule.
It will take them about 34 hours to reach the station and dock.
Once at the station, the crew is scheduled to spend eight months living and working aboard.
This mission replaces a crew that left the station early.
A health issue with one of the astronauts prompted the first medical evacuation of the station last month.
Since then, the station has been operating with a reduced crew of three.
For NPR News, I'm Brendan Byrne in Orlando.
After a practice run of launch day, teams ran into a number of issues, including a hydrogen fuel leak, a problem with the spacecraft's hatch, and communication dropouts.
NASA's delaying an attempt to launch the Artemis II mission this month as crews work to fix the issue.
Launch Director Charlie Blackwell-Thompson.