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Soyuz docks with ISS in record time

An update to my previous post.

Deutsche Welle:

A Soyuz capsule carrying three astronauts has docked at the International Space Station, just six hours after blasting off. Typically, manned Soyuz flights to the ISS last more than two days.

Russian cosmonauts Pavel Vinogradov and Alexander Misurkin and US astronaut Chris Cassidy took the express route to the International Space Station overnight Thursday, docking in the early hours of Friday morning.

They will join three other crew members and remain on board for five months.

“It’s such a beautiful sight, hard to believe my eyes,” the 59-year-old Vinogradov, making his third visit to space, said in footage broadcast on NASA TV.

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