One kicked off his sneakers and propped his stocking feet on the sofa next to me ... “We had a bearded dragon. Not a metaphor, but an actual bearded dragon,” she says.

A SpaceX spacecraft carrying four astronauts is on a pioneering journey circling Earth over its poles after launching Monday night from Florida.

is one of four in SpaceX's Dragon fleet. The vehicles, standing nearly 27 feet tall and about 13 feet wide, can accommodate up to seven astronauts, though most missions comprise a contingent of four.