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Astronauts arrive at International Space Station just 8 hours after launching

12 points • by gmays • today at 7:46 AM • 3 comments • view on HN

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lukeweston1234 • today at 8:51 AM

Interestingly, I found that the record for the Soyuz capsule is around 3 hours, as they prefer much more direct paths.

https://www.space.com/soyuz-makes-fastest-space-station-crew...

Doing a bit of napkin math, it looks like this Soyuz mission made only 2 full orbits; this mission making ~5.

__s • today at 8:40 AM

Surprised article skipped distance. ISS is 400km away, so 50km/h to reach? Obviously being a bit facetious, but gives some idea of what they're working with

majiy • today at 8:56 AM

Obligatory XKCD, explaining what the basic problem of getting into orbit is: https://what-if.xkcd.com/58/