Three astronauts, two Russians and one American, joined the International Space Station (ISS) on Friday morning after a "fast" six-hour flight (which had taken two days so far) in a Russian Soyuz spacecraft, AFP reported. .
After a record-breaking flight in less than six hours, which once took two days and two hours to dock with the space station, Russian cosmonauts Pavel Vinogradov and Alexander Misurkin, as well as American astronaut Christopher Cassidy, were warmly welcomed by three astronauts who were already in the MSS , can be seen in the footage shown on Russian television.
That big gain in time came about thanks to technological improvements that allow the Soyuz space capsule to complete only four orbits around the Earth, whereas previously it had to do 34.
The team that arrived on Friday is scheduled to return to Earth in September.
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