NASA and SpaceX on Friday launched a long-awaited crew to the International Space Station that will let them bring home U.S. astronauts Butch Wilmore and Suni Williams, who have been stuck on the orbital lab for nine months.

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 US, Japanese and Russian astronauts is expected to arrive to the station on Saturday night and will relieve Butch Wilmore and Suni Williams.