Four new astronauts blast off to International Space Station

Three Americans and one Russian astronaut have flown to the International Space Station for a six-month stint.

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00:00 Four astronauts are heading to the International Space Station on a SpaceX ship where they

00:06 will stay for six months. SpaceX's Falcon rocket blasted off from the Kennedy Space

00:11 Center carrying three US and one Russian astronauts. The astronauts are due to reach the orbiting

00:16 lab on Tuesday. They will replace a crew from the US, Denmark, Japan and Russia who have

00:22 been there since August. Crew 8 is the eighth rotation mission of SpaceX's human transport

00:27 system. It's the ninth flight with astronauts to the space station through NASA's Commercial

00:32 Crew Program.

00:33 [WHOOSH]