Planning a trip to space to escape COVID-19? Tough. Arianespace shuts up shop while SpaceX sputters

It has been a frustrating few days for space fans, with automatic safeties and virus fears stopping rocket-based play. Still, there was at least a glimmer of hope from the red planet. COVID-19 claims Arianespace's launch campaign Amid office closures and a general panicking of the populace, Arianespace bowed to the inevitable …

[Alister]

since astronauts might be riding the thing as soon as May.

Unlikely now, I would have thought, due to Covid-19 restrictions.