{"id":89338,"date":"2019-04-09T04:43:49","date_gmt":"2019-04-09T11:43:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2019\/04\/record-breaking-trip-to-international-space-station-in-under-4-hours"},"modified":"2019-04-17T22:01:37","modified_gmt":"2019-04-18T05:01:37","slug":"record-breaking-trip-to-international-space-station-in-under-4-hours","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2019\/04\/record-breaking-trip-to-international-space-station-in-under-4-hours","title":{"rendered":"Record-breaking Trip to International Space Station in under 4 Hours"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/record-breaking-trip-to-international-space-station-in-under-4-hours3.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>A resupply mission to the International Space Station (ISS) has made record time, traveling from Earth to the space station in just three hours and 21 minutes. The Soyuz-2.1a carrier rocket with a Progress MS-11 cargo spaceship was launched from the Russian space Agency Roscosmos\u2019 Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan at 7:01 a.m. on Thursday, April 4.<\/p>\n<p>The super speedy travel time was possible due to a change in how resupply craft approach the ISS. Before, the resupply craft would have to orbit around the Earth dozens of times in order to catch up with the speed of the space station. But now there is a \u201cfast-track\u201d launch which allows the craft to catch up to the station in just two rotations. The resupply craft is launched less than a minute before the space station passes overhead of the launch site, so the craft can catch up to the station more quickly.<\/p>\n<p>Nick Hague, an astronaut aboard the ISS, <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/AstroHague\/status\/1113973472844238850\">tweeted his approval<\/a> of the achievement. \u201cThe progress resupply vehicle made record timing as it launched and docked to the station in under three and a half hours,\u201d he said. \u201cPretty impressive!\u201d The people of Twitter were impressed too. \u201c\u2026quicker than JFK-LAX!\u201d one person <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/grainreader\/status\/1113978042429452294\">commented<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.digitaltrends.com\/cool-tech\/iss-resupply-record-trip\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><\/a><\/p>\n<div style=\"clear:both;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.digitaltrends.com\/cool-tech\/iss-resupply-record-trip\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Read more<\/a><\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.digitaltrends.com\/cool-tech\/iss-resupply-record-trip\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><br \/>\n<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/www.digitaltrends.com\/cool-tech\/iss-resupply-record-trip\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A resupply mission to the International Space Station (ISS) has made record time, traveling from Earth to the space station in just three hours and 21 minutes. The Soyuz-2.1a carrier rocket with a Progress MS-11 cargo spaceship was launched from the Russian space Agency Roscosmos\u2019 Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan at 7:01 a.m. on Thursday, April [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":396,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8,1491],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-89338","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-space","category-transportation"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/89338","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/396"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=89338"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/89338\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":89674,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/89338\/revisions\/89674"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=89338"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=89338"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=89338"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}