Congratulations Jessica Watkins, who is set to be the first Black woman ever to join the International Space Station Crew

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There aren’t enough words in the English language to share how proud we are of Astronaut Jessica Watkins. According to NASA, Watkins is set to depart in April on a 6 month mission above us on the ISS. This would normally be a fairly forward thing, however, a Black woman has never been part of the crew to do so until now.

According to official stats, 7 of the 249 people ever to go up there have been Black none of those were a Black woman.