- Three new inhabitants of the International Space Station took off in an early morning launch on a Russian Soyuz rocket today.
- The trio of new crew members includes one NASA astronaut and two Russian cosmonauts.
- Extra precautions were taken ahead of the launch to ensure the crew had no contact with anyone who might be carrying the novel coronavirus.
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The coronavirus pandemic might be causing all kinds of delays across just about every industry, but Russia’s Roscosmos isn’t letting a global health crisis prevent it from sending humans into space. Early Thursday morning a trio of space travelers rode a Russian Soyuz spacecraft skyward toward their destination at the International Space Station.
The mission included NASA astronaut Chris Cassidy as well as a pair of Russian cosmonauts, Anatoli Ivanishin and Ivan Vagner, both of Roscosmos. The trio will replace three members of the current ISS expedition who are scheduled to depart the space station in just over a week’s time.
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