I never knew it took this long. Are they accelerating throughout this time? Would love to see some visualization of this journey.

Interestingly, I found that the record for the Soyuz capsule is around 3 hours, as they prefer much more direct paths.

https://www.space.com/soyuz-makes-fastest-space-station-crew...

Doing a bit of napkin math, it looks like this Soyuz mission made only 2 full orbits; this mission making ~5.

Surprised article skipped distance. ISS is 400km away, so 50km/h to reach? Obviously being a bit facetious, but gives some idea of what they're working with

Obligatory XKCD, explaining what the basic problem of getting into orbit is: https://what-if.xkcd.com/58/