Three astronauts are launching to space tomorrow after lengthy quarantine

Ivan Vagner (left), Anatoly Ivanishin (center), and Chris Cassidy (right). | Image: NASA In the wee hours of the morning on April 9th, three astronauts are set to launch on a Russian Soyuz rocket from Kazakhstan and journey to the International Space Station, where they’ll join three crew members already living and working in orbit. Because this flight is launching during a pandemic, tighter restrictions and protocols are in place to prevent the novel coronavirus from making its way to sp