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Boeing astronauts prepare for long-delayed return home

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Crew 10 is scheduled for liftoff tonight at 7:48 PM Eastern .

Crew 9 will dock at the International Space Station tomorrow morning .

Crew 10 will then be relieved to make their way back down to Earth on Sunday .

Chris Hadfield is a former commander of the ISS and author of the upcoming book Final Orbit .

It'll be like a couple weeks before they'll let them drive a car, maybe a month before they can fly an airplane.

It'll take about a year and a half for their bones to get back to normal density.

But any professional astronaut would tell you it's absolutely worth it for the amazing new human experience of living off the planet.

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