Three astronauts leave for the International Space Station

Today, a rocket from Kazakhstan to Russia’s Bekhanor space station with US and Russian astronauts left for the International Space Station. The space station is orbiting about 400 km from Earth. NASA astronauts Chris Cassidy and Russian astronauts Anatoly Ivyashin and Ivan Wagner departed via Suez MS16 according to the scheduled program.

In view of the worldwide spread of the Coronavirus, Russia’s spacecraft made a lot of extra security arrangements in relation to the training and preparation of the astronauts. Cassidy said the astronauts had been in a severe quarantine for the past month, which made them all in good health. Russia’s 62-year-old commander Oleg Skripushka and NASA engineers Andrew Morgan and Jessica Mir are already present at the space station.