An astronaut expressed her determination as she and three other explorers blasted off in a SpaceX rocket for International Space Station (ISS) last night. Anne McClain is one of four astronauts deployed to replace Butch Wilmore,

Reaching orbit from NASA’s Kennedy Space Center, the newest crew includes NASA’s Anne McClain and Nichole Ayers, both military pilots; and Japan’s Takuya Onishi and Russia’s Kirill Peskov, both former airline pilots. They will spend the next six months at the space station, considered the normal stint, after springing Wilmore and Williams free.