US-Russian crew blasts off for International Space Station.
The space station’s newest crew members will remain on board until October, keeping the outpost running until SpaceX launches a pair of NASA astronauts from Florida’s Kennedy Space Center, as early as next month. It will be the first orbital launch of astronauts from the U.S. since NASA’s space shuttle program ended in 2011.
Cassidy’s wife, Peggy, watched the launch from NASA’s Mission Control in Houston. She returned home a few weeks ago, after saying goodbye to her husband at cosmonaut headquarters in Star City, Russia. “Obviously, we’d love to have our families here with us, but it’s what we understand we have to do to be safe,” Cassidy said Wednesday. “The whole world is also impacted by the same crisis.”There was another twist, besides coronavirus: Ivanishin and Vagner were assigned to the flight just two months ago, after one of the original Russian crewmen suffered an eye injury.
“This is your day. You worked so hard to get here,” said NASA’s Tricia Mack, head of NASA’s human spaceflight programs in Russia. The Russian Space Agency’s Sergei Krikalev, a former cosmonaut who served on the space station’s first crew almost 20 years ago, assured the astronauts that everything was going to be fine.
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