If you look up into the sky at just the right time, you might catch a Hampton Roads native orbiting by. Rest assured, Zena Cardman is waving to her hometown of Williamsburg.

An international crew of four astronauts launched toward the International Space Station from Florida on Friday aboard a SpaceX rocket, embarking on a routine NASA mission that could be the first of many to last a couple months longer than usual.

Mission managers with NASA and SpaceX polled 'go' to proceed with a launch attempt of the Crew-11 astronaut mission to the ISS on Thursday (July 31).