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Space station crew that was first to be launched during Covid19, returns to Earth

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NASA astronaut Chris Cassidy and Russian cosmonauts Anatoly Ivanishin and Ivan Vagner have returned to the Earth. They were part of the first space station crew to be launched after the World Health Organization declared Covid-19 as a pandemic. The crew had launched to the International Space Station on April 9. The command of the space station was handed over to Russian cosmonaut Sergey Ryzhikov by Cassidy.