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Fastest Ever Trip To Space Station: Expedition 36 Reaches ISS In Soyuz Capsule

Soyuz Crew Make Fastest Journey To Space Station
Christopher York

They may have only just got to the International Space Station (ISS) but the crew of Expedition 36 are already breaking records.

Hurtling into space aboard the Soyuz TMA-09M, Fyodor Yurchikhin of the Russian Federal Space Agency (Roscosmos), NASA's Karen Nyberg and European Space Agency's (ESA) Luca Parmitano reached the ISS in just five hours and 39 minutes.

Docking at 02:16 GMT on Wednesday morning they beat the previous record by six minutes.

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The Soyuz rocket with Expedition 36/37 blasts off from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan

In an odd choice of words upon reaching the ISS, Yurchikhin said: "Thank you for the best spacecraft, finer than the best pocket watch!"

The crew replace take the place of Commander Chris Hadfield who became in internet sensation for his amazing pictures and amazing cover of David Bowie's 'Space Oddity'.

Chris Hadfield's view from space
The moon rising over a bed of cloud (01 of16)
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(credit:Chris Hadfield/ Nasa)
The southwest corner of Africa(02 of16)
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(credit:Chris Hadfield/ Nasa)
Clouds over Hull and the Humber Estuary(03 of16)
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(credit:Chris Hadfield/ Nasa)
Belfast, at the mouth of the River Langan (04 of16)
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(credit:Chris Hadfield/ Nasa)
Utah ski hills (05 of16)
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(credit:Chris Hadfield/ Nasa)
Spaceships glowing blue in the dawn over Florida (06 of16)
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(credit:Chris Hadfield/ Nasa)
Canada(07 of16)
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(credit:Chris Hadfield/ Nasa)
Dr Seuss-inspired swirls in the Black Sea (08 of16)
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(credit:Chris Hadfield/ Nasa)
Crew preparing for a spacewalk (09 of16)
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(credit:Chris Hadfield/ Nasa)
A storm swirling off the Irish coast(10 of16)
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(credit:Chris Hadfield/ Nasa)
Nicosia (Lefkoşa) and the rugged north Cyprus coast(11 of16)
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(credit:Chris Hadfield/ Nasa)
Scotland in the Spring sunshine (12 of16)
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(credit:Chris Hadfield/ Nasa)
Sunrise catches the clouds, mid Atlantic(13 of16)
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A lone jet draws a straight line across the Tatras(14 of16)
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(credit:Chris Hadfield/ Nasa)
Dr Tom Marshburn(15 of16)
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Crew 'light the universe on the dark side of the globe' (16 of16)
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(credit:Chris Hadfield/ Nasa)
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