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NASA's Suni Williams (right) and Butch Wilmore have a new flight back to Earth. (NASA/ISS via SWNS)

By Dean Murray

The stranded astronauts are coming home.

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This frame from a time-lapse video captured by NASA astronaut Don Pettit shows the thrusters firing on the SpaceX Dragon cargo spacecraft after it undocked and backed away from the International Space Station's forward port on the Harmony module.(NASA via SWNS)

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NASA astronaut and Expedition 72 Commander Suni Williams is attached to the Canadarm2 robotic arm's latching end effector while being maneuvered to her worksite 264 miles above the South Pacific Ocean.(NASA via SWNS)

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