Area X has launched its mission to carry again two astronauts stranded on the Worldwide Area Station (ISS) since June.
The Dragon capsule, which has two empty seats for Butch Wilmore and Suni Williams, lifted off from Cape Canaveral, Florida on Saturday.
The pair’s mission on the area station had solely been anticipated to final about eight days however after a fault was discovered on the brand new Boeing Starliner it returned to Earth empty as a precaution.
Nasa astronaut Nick Hague and Russian cosmonaut Alexander Gorbunov are flying with recent provides for Butch and Suni and count on to carry them dwelling in February.
The Dragon launch had been scheduled for Thursday however was delayed due to Hurricane Helene, which has left a path of destruction via Florida, north via Georgia and into Tennessee and the Carolinas.
SpaceX, based by billionaire Elon Musk, has been ferrying crews to and from the ISS each six months.
The Dragon is predicted to dock with the ISS on Sunday at round 21:30 GMT.
Below a contract between Nasa and Roscosmos, the Russian federal area company, three-seat Russian Soyuz spacecraft carry one Nasa astronaut on every flight to the ISS and a cosmonaut flies on every four-seat Dragon.
