In total, there are eight people in space: three at the International Space Station, another three on their way, and another two just made it to China's orbiting station. pic.twitter.com/Ta3eLXpCFL — @Cmdr_Hadfield3 headed to ISSThe Russian Soyuz rocket successfully blasted off from Baikonur, Kazakhstan, early this morning, sending two Russians and an American on a two-day journey to the International Space Station. They'll join three astronauts who currently call the space station home: American Kate Rubins, Russian Anatoly Ivanishin and Japan's Takuya Onishi. China's Xinhua News Agency said the Shenzhou 11 spacecraft took off Monday morning and docked early Wednesday at the Tiangong 2 orbiting space station. Chinese astronauts Jing Haipeng, right, and Chen Dong, docked with the Tiangong 2 space station.

Source: CBC News October 19, 2016 17:24 UTC