Vacha Pandya, niece of US astronaut of Indian-Slovenian origin Sunita Williams, holds a family photograph taken in 1976 and recent portraits of Williams, in Ahmedabad on July 15, 2012. Williams set off from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan today with Flight Engineers Yuri Malenchenko of the Russian Federal Space Agency and Akihiko Hoshide of the Japan Aerospace Exploration.