A crew of three successfully docked with the International Space Station on Thursday, leaving the planet stricken by the coronavirus pandemic.
The Russian space agency Roskosmos reported that the Soyuz MS-16 capsule has been successfully fixed.
Anatoly Ivanishin and Ivan Wagner of Roscosmos and Chris Cassidy of NASA arrived at the ISS at 14:13 GMT, just over six hours after takeoff from the Baikonur cosmodrome, where COVID-19 caused a protocol change before launch.
Usually, the astronaut team is faced with questions from a large pool of press.
This was not possible this time due to virus-related restrictions, although at a press conference on Wednesday, the team responded to questions from journalists via email.
Astronauts are always quarantined before space flight and give a final press conference at Baikonur from behind a glass wall to ward off possible infection.
The process began even earlier than usual last month, when the trio and their backup team went into quarantine at the Russian training center 'Star City' outside Moscow, avoiding traditional prelaunch rituals and visits to the capital.
The astronauts who will return to Earth from the ISS will travel to their countries on April 17 from Baikonur, rather than Karaganda in central Kazakhstan, as usual, as part of new measures due to the pandemic.
