(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.
The ISS maintains an orbit with an altitude of between 330 and 435 km (205 and 270 mi) by means of reboost manoeuvres using the engines of the Zvezda module or visiting spacecraft. It completes 15.54 orbits per day.