SpaceX launches rocket with crew to relieve stranded astronauts

The spacecraft will arrive at the International Space Station this weekend and is meant to return Butch Wilmore and Suni Williams home.

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The long-awaited crew of US, Japanese and Russian astronauts is expected to arrive to the station on Saturday night and will relieve Butch Wilmore and Suni Williams.

This is the second attempt to launch the rocket after an earlier attempt was called off after a critical hydraulic system on ground failed shortly before launch.

Wilmore and Williams have had an extended stay aboard the ISS after Boeing's new Starliner capsule meant to return them to Earth encountered breakdowns.

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