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International Space Station: new crew members to depart in the next few hours

Baikonur, Kazakhstan - For the first time since 2009 nine astronauts will be aboard of the orbiting laboratory

The departure of the new crew members of the International Space Station is scheduled in the next few hours. American space agency NASA astronaut Rick Mastracchio, Russian Federal Space Agency (Roscosmos) Soyuz commander Mikhail Tyurin and Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) astronaut Koichi Wakata will depart from Baikonur Cosmodrome (Kazakhstan) at 10:14 am Kazakh time on November 7 (4:14...

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