The Soyuz MS-17 spacecraft with three crew members reached the International Space Station (ISS) under the two-orbit scheme for the first time, setting a record by the speed of flight to the orbital outpost, Russia’s space agency Roscosmos said in a live broadcast on Wednesday. This reported by TASS.

The Soyuz MS-17 spacecraft with Russian cosmonauts Sergei Ryzhikov and Sergei Kud-Sverchkov and US astronaut Kathleen Rubins docked to the Rassvet module of the ISS at 11:48 a.m. Moscow time. Therefore, the flight lasted three hours and three minutes, the live broadcast says.

Now the orbital outpost’s crew will check the air tightness of the docking, following which the air pressure will be leveled off between the manned spacecraft and the ISS. After that, Ryzhikov, Kud-Sverchkov and Rubins will be able to transfer to the space station.

A Soyuz-2.1a carrier rocket with the manned spacecraft blasted off from site No. 31 of the Baikonur spaceport at 08:45 a.m. Moscow time on Wednesday.