(Okay, we'll try to stop saying Benjamin.) For the results, Kayak looked at both domestic and international round-trip flights in economy class; evaluating search dates between July 1, 2016 and June 30, 2017 for travel dates in that same period. Of course, What are the cheapest days to fly? is a complicated question.
A Russian Soyuz capsule usually takes at least two days to rendezvous with the ISS, because of the carefully timed dance of manoeuvres that must take place for a spaceship to safely meet the orbiting laboratory. Using a new launch process, three astronauts have now made the trip in just under 6 hours.
Astronauts fly to International Space Station in under six hours. Three astronauts have arrived at the International Space Station from Kazakhstan in less than the time it takes to fly from London to New York. A rocket booster carrying the 'Soyuz TMA-08M' spacecraft lifts off from the Cosmodrome Baikonur in Kazakhstan Photo: EPA/SERGEI ILNITSKY.