SpaceX launches four astronauts into space on quickest-ever flight to ISS

• SpaceX has launched the Crew-13 mission to the International Space Station from Cape Canaveral following a delay caused by a spacecraft leak.
• The flight there promised to be the quickest yet for Elon Musk’s company: a mere eight-hour transit with an arrival well before bedtime.
• The four-person international crew includes NASA astronauts Jessica Watkins and Luke Delaney, Canadian Space Agency astronaut Joshua Kutryk, and Roscosmos cosmonaut Sergey Teteryatnikov.
• Watkins became the first Black woman to lead a crew to orbit. A geologist who worked with NASA’s Mars rover Curiosity a decade ago, Watkins is making her second trip to the space station following a lengthy stay in 2022.
• During Crew-13’s six-month mission aboard the space station, the crew will conduct scientific experiments to support future human exploration of the Moon and Mars.

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SpaceX to launch four astronauts to space for six-month stay