SpaceX launches mission that aims to return long-delayed Starliner astronauts

A SpaceX mission due to unite the Boeing Starliner astronauts with the spacecraft that will bring them home has taken flight. NASA’s Suni Williams and Butch Wilmore have now been on the International Space Station more than 100 days longer than expected.

The SpaceX mission, called Crew-9, took off at 1:17 p.m. ET Saturday from Cape Canaveral Space Force Station in Florida.

NASA previously delayed the launch attempt from Thursday, rolling the spacecraft back into its hangar...