New Rules Apply As US-Russian Space Crew Blasts Off
April 9, 2020
3:11 pm
A US-Russian space crew blasted off Thursday to the International Space Station (ISS) following a tight quarantine amid theΒ coronavirus pandemic.
NASA astronaut Chris Cassidy and Roscosmos’ Anatoly Ivanishin and Ivan Vagner lifted off as scheduled at 08:05am GMT from the Russian-operated Baikonur cosmodrome in Kazakhstan.
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Their Soyuz MS-16 spacecraft was set to dock at the station six hours later.
Russian space officials have taken extra precautions to protect the crew during training and pre-flight preparations as the coronavirus outbreak has swept the world.
Speaking to journalists on Wednesday in
