"Everything is possible ... but, I think, the chances that we could (bring the virus. - RT ) are almost zero," RIA Novosti quotes Cassidy.

He said that he arrived in Russia from Houston in late February, and already from the first week of March all pre-flight training did not go beyond the training base, and communication was reduced to a circle of people who were directly involved in the start.

“We followed this very strictly ... There was practically no interaction between our crew and people from the outside world,” the astronaut said.

On April 9, the Soyuz MS-16 manned spacecraft with a crew of three on board docked to the ISS.