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SpaceX launches relief mission for stranded NASA astronauts

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The SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket successfully took off Friday night from NASA 's Kennedy Space Center .

It is on a mission to deliver four new astronauts to the International Space Station .

The new team is scheduled to arrive at the station on Saturday .

Sunita Williams and Butch Wilmore will finally be able to return to Earth at some point on or shortly after March 19 .

The pair have been stranded in orbit since June 5 , with many claiming Williams and Wilmore were left on the ISS for political reasons.

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