“On October 25, at 22:08, from the launch pad 4 of site 43 of the state test cosmodrome of the Russian Ministry of Defense (Plesetsk cosmodrome) in the Arkhangelsk region, a combat crew of the Space Forces of the Aerospace Forces successfully launched a medium-class carrier rocket Soyuz-2.1b from navigation spacecraft "Glonass-K", - RIA Novosti leads the message.
On October 14, the Soyuz MS-17 spacecraft with three crew members, Roskosmos cosmonauts Sergei Ryzhikov and Sergei Kud-Sverchkov, and NASA astronaut Kathleen Rubins first flew to the ISS using a two-turn scheme, setting a record for the speed of flight to the station.
It took a little over three hours.