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The Economic Times
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SpaceX launches Crew-13 to ISS in record US transit, with first Black woman to lead orbital crew

Four astronauts reached the International Space Station on Thursday after an eight-hour journey that set a record for the fastest US flight to the orbiting laboratory.

The crew, launched by SpaceX for NASA, included commander Jessica Watkins, who became the first Black woman to lead a crew into orbit. The mission had been delayed for three weeks while engineers repaired a leaking fuel system on the Dragon capsule.

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