Jessica Watkins Makes History as First Black Woman to Command Space Mission
On a SpaceX mission, Jessica Watkins made history as the first Black woman to command a crew to orbit. The crew, consisting of Watkins and three other astronauts, launched from Cape Canaveral at 11:10 a.m. after a three-week delay due to a leaking fuel system in their Dragon capsule.
The mission set a US speed record, with the SpaceX Dragon “Grace” capsule docking at the International Space Station (ISS) just seven hours and 55 minutes after liftoff. This marked SpaceX's 13th crew launch for NASA.
Watkins, a geologist who previously worked on NASA’s Mars rover Curiosity, is on her second trip to the ISS, where the crew will spend six months replacing four astronauts who have been there since February. The other crew members include Luke Delaney, a retired Marine, Joshua Kutryk, a colonel in the Royal Canadian Air Force, and Sergey Teteryatnikov, a former submariner.
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