2 Russian cosmonauts, Pavel Vinogradov and Alexander Misurkin, and the US astronaut, Chris Cassidy , took a shortcut to the ISS on friday.
Blasting off from the Baikonur cosmodrome in Kazakhstan, the Soyuz carrying these three men Reached the ISS in just under 6 hours, as against the usual 50 hour journey from the earth to the space lab. The advantage of this express route is that now the crew dose not have to sit cramped tightly in the capsule and also they can arrive before ant disabling effects of adapting to microgravity, which can include nausea.
