The three members of Expedition 70 are set to relieve astronauts who had been stranded on the space station for an additional six months.
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The Soyuz MS-24 is scheduled to dock with the ISS at 2:56 p.m. ET. From there, NASA astronaut Loral O’Hara will begin a six-month mission on board the space station while Roscosmos cosmonauts Oleg Kononenko and Nikolai Chub will spend a year in low Earth orbit.The latest crew members will join the space station’s Expedition 69 crew, which includes NASA astronaut Frank Rubio. Rubio recently
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