US: VP Mike Pence, wife Karen watches SpaceX launch

US Vice President Mike Pence and his wife Karen Pence were in Florida on Sunday night to watch the SpaceX launch of a Falcon rocket with a Dragon capsule on top. The four crew members on board the Dragon are on their way to the International Space Station on the first full-fledged taxi flight for NASA by a private company.

The crew includes three Americans and one Japanese member. They're the second crew to be launched by SpaceX. Sunday’s launch follows by just a few months SpaceX’s two-pilot test flight. It kicks off what NASA hopes will be a long series of crew rotations between the US and the space station, after years of delay. More people means more science research at the orbiting lab, according to officials.