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Old March 29th 13, 05:38 AM posted to sci.space.station
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Default Fast track Soyuz is docked

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A NASA astronaut and his two Russian crewmates made the fastest-ever
trip to the International Space Station on Thursday, arriving less than
six hours after launch.
"Contact and capture," Russian cosmonaut Pavel Vinogradov, commander of
the Soyuz space capsule, reported at 10:28 p.m. ET.
/quote

As Alan Boyle reports at
http://cosmiclog.nbcnews.com/_news/2013/03/28/17505443-us-russian-crew-hooks-up-with-space-station-after-fastest-ride-ever
they cut the flight time from 2 days and 30 orbits to just 4 orbits.

The procedure (and navigation upgrades, it seems) was tested in the 3
previous Progress launches.

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