Spacex Lanza Rocket with equipment to relieve astronauts stranded

Spacex has launched NASA’s CREW-10 mission, with a Falcon 9 rocket sending four astronauts to the International Space Station from the Kennedy Space Center in Florida.

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

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

Wilmore and Williams have had a prolonged stay aboard the ISS after the new Boeing Starliner capsule intended to return them to Earth found breakdown.