Jessica Watkins, an accomplished UCLA and Stanford grad who worked on the Curiosity rover with NASA JPL, will make history as the first Black woman to serve on a long-duration space mission.
A NASA astronaut with local ties is on her way to the International Space Station Wednesday morning -- and she's making history in the process.
Jessica Watkins, a UCLA graduate, is on her first mission to space during a six-month-long excursion to the ISS.launched from NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida at 3:52 a.m. ET. It's the fourth journey to the ISS for a commercial crew, and marks 26 astronauts sent to space by SpaceX in under two years.
Other crew members traveling alongside Watkins include NASA astronauts Kjell Lindgren and Bob Hines, as well as Italian astronaut Samantha Cristoforetti.
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