• Fresh Crew Arrives on ISS

    From ARRL de WD1CKS@VERT/WLARB to QST on Tue Apr 14 02:19:57 2020
    04/13/2020

    Astronaut Chris Cassidy, KF5KDR, and two Russian cosmonauts arrived on April 9 as the Expedition 63 crew on the International Space Station, temporarily restoring the orbiting laboratory's population to six people. A Soyuz spacecraft transported Cassidy, Anatoly Ivanishin, and Ivan Vagner on a four-orbit, 6-hour flight after launching from Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan.

    The Expedition 63 crew will live aboard the station for a bit longer than 6 months, with Cassidy as commander.

    The Expedition 62 crew of Jessica Meir, Drew Morgan, KI5AAA, and Oleg Skripochka, RA0LDJ, will head back to Earth on April 17.

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