Soyuz crew launches on 'ultrafast' two-orbit flight to space station

[Admin]

NASA's Kate Rubins and cosmonauts Sergey Ryzhikov and Sergey Kud-Sverchkov launched to the International Space Station just ahead of and to extend 20 years of a continuous human presence in orbit.

Soyuz crew launches on 'ultrafast' two-orbit flight to space station : Read more

 

[Jason K]

If this was the 63rd Soyuz launch to ISS (including the 2018 aborted attempt), and there were 37 STS launches to the ISS plus 1 manned Dragon launch, wouldn't Soyuz MS-17 mark the 101st (manned) spacecraft launched to ISS?

 

[collectSPACE]

One of the 63 Soyuz ISS launches, Soyuz MS-14, flew without a crew (it carried a robot instead). So MS-17 is the 100th spacecraft to launch with a crew towards the ISS.

 

[MariaKasioni]

What does a "two-orbit flight" mean?