A Soyuz rocket carrying a space team of three astronauts was launched on Friday from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan. Now, the crew, including one NASA astronaut and two cosmonauts, has reached the International Space Station (ISS) safely.

A pair of Roscosmos cosmonauts—Oleg Skripochka and Aleksey Ovchinin—and American astronaut Jeff Williams arrived at the ISS after a journey of about six hours. With the latest mission, the 58-year-old NASA astronaut, Jeff Williams, will break another NASA astronaut Scott Kelly’s record by spending 534 cumulative days aboard the space station. Kelly has lived 520 days in space at the ISS.

The trio, flying on a Soyuz space capsule, was welcomed by NASA astronaut Tim Kopra, ESA astronaut Tim Peake and Russian cosmonaut Yuri Malenchenko.

The six-month stay in the orbiting lab will be second of Skripochka, while Ovchinin has visited the space station for the first time. Williams is the most experienced astronaut in the trio who has arrived at the ISS three times before this. It is his fourth visit to the space station in over 15 years. His first voyage to the habitable artificial satellite in low earth orbit was when the station was under construction.

“The first time I was there before Expedition 1, and I was there in Expedition 13, about halfway through the assembly [of the International Space Station]. And the last time was Expeditions 21 and 22, right at the end of the assembly”, Williams said last month.

According to the astronaut, his current voyage to the space station will be an interesting one. He said it is an opportunity for him to refresh the world. According to Williams, he has a list of things that he will try to get again.