New crew makes the quickest US flight to ISS

Four astronauts docked at the International Space Station (ISS) port on Thursday after completing the fastest flight by a US spacecraft to the outpost, NASA officials said. The SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket, with the Crew-13 aboard, lifted off at 11:10 a.m. local time (1510 GMT) from Cape Canaveral, Florida, and within 7 hours and 55 minutes, its capsule, SpaceX Dragon "Grace," docked at the ISS — setting a record for a US trip to the ISS. The flight by the spacecraft was the quickest so far, not only for Elon Musk's company, but for any American entity, including NASA. The time taken for a trip to the ISS mainly depends on the distance between the ISS and the spacecraft at the time of launch.