<ul><li>The replacements for two Nasa astronauts who have been stuck at the International Space Station for nine months launched on Friday evening.</li><li>Nasa wants overlap between the two crews so Wilmore and Williams can fill in the newcomers on happenings onboard the ISS.</li><li>Rocketing toward orbit from Nasa’s Kennedy Space Center, the newest crew includes Nasa’s Anne McClain and Nichole Ayers, both military pilots; and Japan’s Takuya Onishi and Russia’s Kirill Peskov, both former airline pilots.</li><li>Already capturing the world’s attention, their unexpectedly long mission took a political twist when Donald Trump and SpaceX’s Elon Musk vowed earlier this year to accelerate the astronauts’ return and blamed the former administration for stalling it.</li></ul>

Crew lifts off on SpaceX mission to replace stuck Nasa astronauts

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