Soyuz MS-17
First Soyuz to use ultrafast two-orbit rendezvous to the ISS.
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Soyuz MS-17 was a crewed Soyuz spacecraft launched on 14 October 2020, carrying three members of the Expedition 63/64 crew to the International Space Station. It was the 145th crewed flight of a Soyuz spacecraft and marked the first use of a new ultrafast two-orbit rendezvous, reaching the ISS within about three hours of launch.
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Early planning listed Russian cosmonaut Nikolai Chub as flight engineer, pending a NASA decision on purchasing more Soyuz seats. In May 2020, NASA bought a seat and assigned Kathleen Rubins as flight engineer, backed up by Mark T. Vande Hei.
Ryzhikov and Kud-Sverchkov replaced them. Babkin remains an active cosmonaut without a spaceflight; Tikhonov has retired from Roscosmos. Roscosmos implemented a two-cosmonaut reserve crew due to the COVID-19 pandemic, but it was not confirmed whether NASA planned to add an astronaut to that reserve.
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