‘3 hours and 3 minutes’ to ISS

In mid-October 2020, a Russian Soyuz spacecraft, carrying a crew comprising an American and two Russians were launched from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan reaching the International Space Station (ISS) in the fastest ever time of just over 3 hours. As stated by Roscosmos a new record for flights to the International Space Station was set the total time from launch to docking of the Soyuz MS-17 was three hours and three minutes, some half the time of previous such journeys.