Blastoff! New Space Station crew launches atop Soyuz rocket

A Russian Soyuz 2.1a rocket launched a Soyuz MS-16 space capsule carrying NASA astronaut Chris Cassidy and cosmonauts Anatoly Ivanishin and Ivan Vagner (of the Russian space agency Roscosmos) on a six-hour trip to the space station on April 9, 2020. -- Soyuz crew 'socially distances' from Earth with successful launch to space station: https://www.space.com/soyuz-rocket-launches-space-station-crew-expedition-63.html

See the Soyuz 3rd stage separation in amazing spacecraft view: https://videos.space.com/m/131OoB3d/watch-a-soyuz-3rd-stage-separation-in-amazing-spacecraft-view?list=6DUiA9a3

They lifted off from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan at 4:05 a.m. EDT (1:05 p.m. Kazakhstan time).

Credit: NASA