Welcome to a new and different Space Age: Elon Musk’s SpaceX this week ferried four NASA astronauts to the International Space Station — and brought along Baby Yoda for good measure.

Just 27 hours after liftoff aboard the Falcon rocket from the Kennedy Space Center, the Dragon capsule made contact with the crew aboard the ISS.

Since the end of the space shuttle program in 2011, NASA had to rent seats from Russia

Thanks to Musk, his SpaceX team and NASA, America’s space program is truly back — and better than ever