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NEW DELHI: A fresh team of astronauts lifted off to the International Space Station on Friday, departing from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan. The crew is composed of NASA astronaut Loral O'Hara and Russian cosmonauts Oleg Kononenko and Nikolai Chub. While it is a six-month mission for O'Hara, it is a year-long expedition for Kononenko and Chub. Their journey will culminate with a docking at the station's Rassvet module around 2.56 pm. Upon the opening of the hatches connecting the ISS and the Soyuz, the newly arrived crew...