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A four-person SpaceX flight on Thursday reached the International Space Station (ISS) after setting off from the Cape Canaveral launch site in Florida a day earlier. The Crew 5 – consisting of NASA astronauts Nicole Aunapu Mann and Josh Cassada, Japanese astronaut Koichi Wakata and Russian cosmonaut Anna Kikina – arrived at the station at 5:01 pm (2101 GMT). The crew will overlap with the Expedition 68 crew, and “for a short time” it will bring the number of resident on the ISS to 11. Kikina was the first cosmonaut to travel to the ISS under a cross-flight programme agreed this summer between …