NURSULTAN: Two Russian cosmonauts, Anatoli Ivanishin and Ivan Vagner, and National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) astronaut Chris Cassidy went on to launch a dangerous mission to the International Space Station from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan at 4:05 a.m. (9:05 a.m. in Manila) on Thursday.

The planned launch comes at a time when many events have been postponed or canceled because of the coronavirus pandemic.