Dhaka, Oct. 3 -- A crew of four astronauts has arrived at the International Space Station (ISS) in under eight hours, the fastest journey ever made by a US spacecraft, with Jessica Watkins becoming the first Black woman to command a crew to orbit.

SpaceX's Dragon capsule, "Grace", lifted off from Cape Canaveral in Florida on Thursday at 11:10am local time (1510 GMT) for a National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) mission, according to The Guardian.

The launch was delayed by three weeks after engineers repaired a leak in the capsule's fuel system, while clouds threatened to force another postponement.

The capsule docked with the station seven hours and 55 minutes after liftoff. The previous crew to launch from US soil took mo...