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2020-05-05 -Obits-
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Evgeniy Mikrin, General Designer of Manned Programs of Russia, died of coronavirus. ISS endangered.
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From yesterday's [IBT] some background:
Coronavirus Could Infect ISS After Senior Launch Official Tests Positive
KEY POINTS
A Russian launch official tested positive for COVID-19
The official attended the launch of Soyuz MS-16 to the ISS
COVID-19 may have reached the ISS
Fears of COVID-19 reaching space and the International Space Station (ISS) have emerged after a Russian launch official reportedly tested positive for the diseases. According to reports, the official was spotted standing near other Russian officers, cosmonauts and astronauts before the recent launch to the ISS.
On April 9, Russia launched the Soyuz MS-16 mission to transport two cosmonauts and one NASA astronaut to the ISS. The spacecraft was launched from the Baikonur Cosmodrome, a spaceport in southern Kazakhstan.
The event was attended by various officials from Russia. Some of them include Evgeniy Mikrin, the deputy head of Energia Rocket and Space Corporation. Along with Dmitry Rogozin, the head of the Russian space agency Roscosmos, Mikrin oversaw the launch of the Soyuz MS-16 mission.
A source confirmed to the Russian news agency TASS that Mikrin recently tested positive for COVID-19. According to the report, Mikrin tested positive twice for the virus following the launch of the Soyuz MS-16. A different report by the news agency noted that he is one of the 30 Russian space personnel infected with the virus.
Due to Mikrin’s status, officials in Russia have already started contact tracing to check the individuals he had been in contact with prior to testing positive for coronavirus.
For the Soyuz MS-16 mission, Mikrin flew from Moscow to the Baikonur Cosmodrome in a government plane along with Rogozin. Then, after reaching the spaceport, the Roscosmos head was spotted standing next to the crew of the mission, which includes the cosmonauts Anatoli Ivanishin and Ivan Vagner, and NASA astronaut Christopher Cassidy.
“He was on the same plane with the head of the state space corporation Dmitry Rogozin who was later talking directly to cosmonauts,” local media outlet Moskovsky Komsomolets stated in a report. 
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Posted by Bobby 2020-05-05 10:59||
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