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LIFTOFF! Crew-10 successfully launches on rescue mission to the ISS

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CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. — After two days of scrubbed flights, four astronauts took off to the ISS aboard a SpaceX Dragon spacecraft successfully atop a Falcon 9 rocket around 7 p.m. Friday.

The spacecraft hopes to return with Barry "Butch" Wilmore and Suni Williams, whose weeklong trip last June turned into a 9-month debacle.

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The crew, under the command of NASA astronautAnne McClain, also includes NASA pilot Nichole Ayers and two mission specialists from other space agencies: Japanese astronaut Takuya Onishi of the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (Jaxa) and Roscosmos cosmonaut Kirill Peskov.

They now have a 28 hour journey before they reach the International Space Station.

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Wilmore and Williams have been at the International Space Station for nine months after Boeing's new Starliner capsule encountered major breakdowns in transit. The two-person crew was only supposed to be on board for about a week, but ultimately the Starliner capsule returned empty.

You can watch 9:45pm ET tomorrow where the spacecraft will dock at the ISS.