A Soyuz capsule has arrived at the International Space Station just six hours after launch, having been the first to take a quicker route to the orbiting science lab.
Instead of the normal 36 orbits and more than fifty hours of journey from the surface to the ISS, the capsule instead circled the Earth just four times, using intricate ballistics manoeuvres to take a quicker route.
By: Duncan Geere,
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via Wired.co.uk
http://www.wired.co.uk/news/archive/2013-03/30/soyuz-iss
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