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Crew‑13 Docks at ISS After Record‑Fast Seven‑Hour Transit

The rapid rendezvous shows U.S. spacecraft can reach the station in hours following a prelaunch delay to repair a detected leak.

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Zwei US-Astronauten, ein Kanadier und ein russischer Kosmonaut sind am Donnerstag an der Internationalen Raumstation ISS eingetroffen. Nach einem Flug von weniger als acht Stunden dockte die Crew-13 am Freitagmorgen (MESZ) an der ISS an, wie die Nasa mitteilte.
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Overview

  • NASA reported Crew‑13 reached the International Space Station in 7 hours 55 minutes, the fastest transit for a U.S. spacecraft to the station.
  • The four‑person team — NASA astronauts Jessica Watkins and Luke Delaney, Canadian Joshua Kutryk and Russian cosmonaut Sergej Teterjatnikow — launched on a SpaceX Falcon 9 from Cape Canaveral.
  • The launch was postponed from mid‑September after teams found a leak on the spacecraft and completed repairs and safety checks before liftoff.
  • Crew‑13 will remain on the station for about six months and is conducting a multi‑day handover with Crew‑12, which will return to Earth at the end of that overlap weather permitting.
  • Faster rendezvous profiles cut time spent in the cramped capsule and let crews begin experiments sooner, and the flight underscores the ISS’s continued role for multinational U.S.‑Russia cooperation in low Earth orbit.