Starting in April 2022, Jessica Watkins will make history in her new home on the International Space Station (ISS). Watkins will be the first Black woman to live and work on ISS.  When Watkins joins the SpaceX Crew-4, the fourth rotation of astronauts on the Crew Dragon spacecraft, it will be her first mission into space since starting her stint with NASA in 2017. She has worked in the agency’s research centers and on the Mars rover, Curiosity.  Watkins will fly to the space station from NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Cape Canaveral, Florida, alongside NASA astronauts Kjell Lindgren and Robert Hines and astronaut Samantha Cristoforetti of the European Space Agency. The mission is expected to last six months.  Read more