Space station in just 6 hours!

The Dhaka Times Desk The dream of visiting the space station in less time has finally come true. Now you can go back to the space station in the same day! Recently, Russian astronauts created a record by going to the International Space Station in less than 6 hours. Earlier it used to take two days to get to the space station.

Space researchers have been trying for a long time, how to reduce the distance between the Earth and space. Two Russians and a NASA astronaut reached the International Space Station in just 6 hours by making the dream come true. The Soyuz TMA-08M spacecraft lifted off from the Baikanur Space Center in Kazakhstan on March 29 at 8:43 a.m. International Standard Time on March 28. It successfully landed on the space station after 6 hours at 2:28. NASA confirmed this successful landing four minutes before the scheduled time. This is the record for the shortest time to reach space. Earlier it used to take about 45 hours to reach the International Space Station. Since it takes two days, the space station is constantly orbiting the Earth from a distance of 250 miles, so it is not very easy to reach its exact point. For this, the spaceships have to circle the earth 16 times before landing. Each circumambulation takes about 90 minutes. But the Soyuz spacecraft successfully landed on the space station after only four orbits. NASA spokesperson Kelly Humphries said in this regard, the development of equipment and computer software made this historic flight possible.

The spacecraft crew are Pavel Vinogradov and Aleksandr Misurkin of the Russian Space Agency and Chris Cassidy of NASA. They will stay in the space station for about 6 months. Scientists say that going to space in just 6 hours will have many advantages in space research. In a video message after reaching the space station, Pavel Vinogradov said that the astronauts are completely normal in the shortest time in space. The advantage, he said, is that astronauts don't immediately experience weightlessness. A second advantage is that items sent quickly to the space station decay very quickly. Now that the distance is reduced, that problem will no longer exist. Earlier, Pavel Vinogradov was in space for 197 days. News: AFP CNN Online.