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SpaceX launches crew to ISS successfully: ‘Thanks for an amazing ride’

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The Guardian – World
“SpaceX launches crew to ISS successfully: ‘Thanks for an amazing ride’”

Jessica Watkins, the first Black woman to lead a crew to orbit, is making her second trip to the space station Four astronauts rocketed into orbit on Thursday on a space station mission that will stretch until spring, among them a Canadian whose wife will give birth while he is away. SpaceX launched commander Jessica Watkins and her crew for Nasa after a three-week delay to fix the capsule’s leaking fuel system. Thick clouds threatened all morning to halt the countdown but in the end, the skies…

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BBC News – World
“SpaceX launches crew to ISS”

The Falcon 9 rocket blasted off from Cape Canaveral with two Americans, a Russian and a Canadian who will spend up to six months aboard the International Space Station.

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