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SpaceX capsule docks to rescue US astronauts stranded on space station

US pair set to return home on Wednesday after Boeing Starliner problems meant eight-day mission lasted nine months

A capsule made by Elon Musk’s SpaceX docked at the International Space Station early on Sunday, delivering a new crew to enable US astronauts Suni Williams and Butch Wilmore to return to Earth following a nine-month mission that was supposed to last eight days.

The Dragon capsule docked at 12.04am ET, about 29 hours after launching from Nasa’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida, carrying four new crew members from the US, Japan and Russia.

After the astronauts entered the ISS, Williams told Mission Control it was “great to see our friends arrive”.

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