One American and two Russian house crew members blasted off Friday aboard a Russian spacecraft from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan on a mission to the International Space Station.

NASA astronaut Loral O’Hara and Roscosmos cosmonauts Oleg Kononenko and Nikolai Chub lifted off on the Roscosmos Soyuz MS-24 spacecraft at 8.44 p.m. native time. O’Hara will spend six months on the ISS whereas Kononenko and Chub will spend a 12 months there.

Neither O’Hara nor Chub have ever flown to house earlier than, however they are going to be flying with veteran cosmonaut and mission commander Kononenko, who has made the journey 4 instances already. The trio ought to arrive on the ISS after a 3 hour flight.

When they get to the ISS, their module will dock and when the hatches open they are going to be met by seven astronauts and cosmonauts from the U.S., Russia, Denmark and Japan. Later in September, three of the ISS crew will depart, together with NASA astronaut Frank Rubio who could have been there for greater than a 12 months.

According to NASA, when mission commander Kononenko finishes his tour to house in a 12 months’s time, he’ll maintain the file for the one that has spent the longest period of time — greater than a thousand days — in house.