Super-Fast 3-Hour Manned Flights to ISS to Begin in 18 Months

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MOSCOW (Sputnik) - Manned flights to the International Space Station (ISS) under an ultra-fast three-hour scheme involving circling the Earth twice, will begin in a year and a half, Dmitry Rogozin, the head of Russian state space corporation Roscosmos, said on Sunday.

"We are planning to repeat the launch of the Progress cargo spacecraft in an ultra-short two-rotation scheme next March. The flight time is three hours. In a year and a half, we will deliver cosmonauts and space tourists to the ISS faster than a flight from Moscow to Brussels," Rogozin wrote on Twitter.

​READ MORE: Roscosmos, NASA to Adjust ISS Program to Fit With Lunar Missions — Rogozin

Rogozin also confirmed information, provided earlier to Sputnik by a source, that the next cargo spacecraft would be launched on March 28 under an ultra-fast scheme.

For decades, spaceships with crew and cargo typically flew for about 50 hours before reaching the ISS. In 2013, Russia introduced a six-hour route to the International Space Station, consisting of four orbits.

The Progress MS-09 spacecraft was first launched to the ISS under the three-hour scheme in July.

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