Thursday, April 9, 2020

New Russian-American Trio Launches on Soyuz and Docks to Space Station


The Soyuz MS-16 lifts off from Site 31 at the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan on Thursday, April 9, 2020, sending Expedition 63 crewmembers Chris Cassidy of NASA and Anatoly Ivanishin and Ivan Vagner of Roscosmos into orbit for a six-hour flight to the International Space Station and the start of a six-and-a-half month mission. Image Credit: NASA/GCTC/Andrey Shelepin
9 April 2020

Ken Kremer - - For SpaceUpClose.com & RocketSTEM 

CAPE CANAVERAL, FL – With greatly reduced fanfare and no family members present in response to the continuing coronavirus COVID-19 pandemic a new Russian-American trio of spacefarers successfully launched to orbit aboard an upgraded Soyuz rocket this morning Thursday, April 9 and docked at the International Space Station (ISS) just six hours later.
Read the entire story at Space UpClose:
https://www.spaceupclose.com/2020/04/new-russian-american-trio-launches-on-soyuz-and-docks-to-space-station/

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