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Astronauts arrive at International Space Station on the quickest US express flight yet
The Crew-13 mission will spend six months aboard the station after a delay to fix a leaking Dragon fuel system, NASA said.
- On Thursday, four astronauts arrived at the International Space Station after an eight-hour express flight, marking SpaceX's 13th crew launch for NASA and setting a U.S. speed record.
- A three-week delay to repair the Dragon capsule's leaking fuel system preceded launch, while the crew embraced a 'Lucky 13' theme honoring the Apollo 13 moonshot.
- Commander Jessica Watkins became the first Black woman to lead a crew to orbit, joined by NASA's Luke Delaney, Royal Canadian Air Force Colonel Joshua Kutryk, and Russia's Sergey Teteryatnikov. Watkins said they were 'four of the luckiest humans on or off planet Earth.'
- The Canadian Space Agency pledged family support for Kutryk, whose wife is due in late November, as NASA plans to maintain contact following precedents set by astronauts Mike Fincke and Randy Bresnik.
- SpaceX demonstrated rapid turnaround by launching a Falcon rocket with more than 100 mini satellites from California three hours after Crew-13 liftoff, with another Falcon flight scheduled for Thursday night.
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No U.S. spaceship on the ISS was this fast: just under eight hours after the launch, a "Dragon" capsule reaches the space station. Four spacemen from the USA, Canada and Russia are on board.
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Astronauts arrive at International Space Station on the quickest US express flight yet
Four astronauts have arrived at the International Space Station following an express eight-hour flight. SpaceX launched the U.S., Canadian and Russian crew on Thursday.
·New York, United States
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Record breaker! SpaceX Crew-13 astronauts dock at ISS less than 8 hours after launch in fastest American flight ever
The astronauts of SpaceX's Crew-13 mission reached the International Space Station today (Oct. 1) less than eight hours after launch, setting a new speed record for a U.S. spacecraft.
·New York, United States
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