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Black woman Jessica Watkins makes history aboard space station

Astronauts Bob Hines, Kjell Lindgren, Jessica Watkins and Samantha Cristoforetti ahead of launch at the Kennedy Space Centre in Florida. AFP - GREGG NEWTON

Four astronauts, including the first black woman to join the International Space Station crew, docked their SpaceX capsule at the ISS Wednesday less than 16 hours after blast off from NASA's Kennedy Space Centre in Cape Canaveral.

Three of the crew were from Nasa, while the other is from the European Space Agency. Their fully autonomous capsule circled the Earth more than 10 times before docking at 23:37 GMT.

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