Chinanews, October 14th, a comprehensive report, local time on the 14th, three astronauts from Russia and the United States took the Russian "Soyuz" MS-17 manned spacecraft, launched from Kazakhstan to the International Space Station (ISS) , Arrived in only 3 hours and 3 minutes and successfully docked, setting a new record.
Data map: On August 27, 2019, the large screen of the control room of the Russian Aerospace Corporation played the scene of the re-dock of the Soyuz MS-14 spacecraft carrying the humanoid robot Fyodor and the International Space Station (ISS).
According to reports, the three astronauts are Sergey Ryzhikov and Sergey Kud-Sverchkov from the Russian Space Agency, and Kathleen Rubins from NASA. .
On the same day, the Russian Space Agency confirmed on social media that the "Soyuz" spacecraft successfully docked with the International Space Station, and the journey "only took 3 hours and 3 minutes, setting a new record."
The docking time is 4 minutes earlier than the scheduled time.
Agence France-Presse stated that the journey is a manned space flight that can be docked with the International Space Station in just over three hours, saving half of the time compared to the usual journey.
According to reports, the launch mission coincides with the two missions of SpaceX.
After 9 years in 2011, NASA sent Douglas Hurley and Robert Benken two astronauts to the International Space Station from the Kennedy Space Center in Florida at the end of May 2020.
The two returned safely to Earth on August 2.
Space Exploration Technologies also plans to send astronauts to the space station again in November and perform a complete half-year mission.