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The Falcon 9 launched at 5:49 a.m. Friday from the NASA Kennedy Space Center in Florida and docked at the space station just after 5 a.m. ET.

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The four astronauts, hailing from the U.S., France and Japan, will stay at the space station for six months and replace four others who will return to Earth next week on their own SpaceX capsule.

Flying in the craft were Shane Kimbrough and Megan McArthur of the U.S., Japanese astronaut Akihiko Hoshide, and Thomas Pesquet of France.

The trip was the third by NASA using a SpaceX capsule in the past year but the first in which it used a recycled rocket and capsule. Musk has said he plans to push more recycled capsules to fly to the moon and Mars.

Another team of astronauts will fly to the space station for another six-month stay in the fall.

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