NASA Artemis III Rocket Nose Cone Assembly | Kennedy Space Center

NASA Artemis III Rocket Nose Cone Assembly | Kennedy Space Center

Engineers with NASA’s Exploration Ground Systems complete integration of the aerodynamic nose cones onto the left and right forward segments on the twin Space Launch System (SLS) solid rocket boosters, finishing their stacking operations for Artemis III inside the Vehicle Assembly Building’s High Bay 3 at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida on Wednesday, Sept. 30, 2026. Each forward assembly contains an aerodynamic top, a forward skirt housing avionics, and frustum housing motors that allow the boosters to separate from the SLS core stage after launch. The twin solid boosters will help support the remaining rocket components and the Orion spacecraft during final assembly of the Artemis III rocket and provide more than 75 percent of the total SLS thrust during liftoff from NASA Kennedy’s Launch Pad 39B.

Planned to launch in 2027, the Artemis III Mission will practice docking the Orion spacecraft with two lunar landers in low Earth orbit. 

On future missions, including Artemis IV in 2028, landers will bring astronauts to the lunar surface. While Artemis III will not land on the Moon, it will test the complex capabilities NASA needs to return—this time to stay.

Learn more about NASA’s Artemis program:

https://www.nasa.gov/artemis

Image Credit: NASA/Cory Huston/Frank Michaux
Image Dates: Sept. 24-30, 2026

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NASA’s SpaceX Crew-13 Arrival & Welcoming Remarks | International Space Station

NASA’s SpaceX Crew-13 Arrival & Welcoming Remarks | International Space Station

NASA astronauts Jessica Watkins and Luke Delaney, as well as Canadian Space Agency astronaut Joshua Kutryk and Roscosmos Sergey Teteryatnikov of Russia, docked to the forward port of the Harmony module of the International Space Station Oct. 1, 2026, following their launch less than nine hours prior on a SpaceX Dragon spacecraft and Falcon 9 rocket from Cape Canaveral in Florida. Following docking, the quartet opened the hatch and floated aboard the orbital outpost before providing welcoming remarks as their mission aboard the space station began. 

Crew-13 will conduct a long-duration mission living and working aboard the microgravity laboratory to advance scientific knowledge and demonstrate new technologies for future human and robotic exploration flights as part of NASA’s Moon and Mars exploration approach, including lunar missions through NASA’s Artemis program.

Follow Expedition 75:

https://blogs.nasa.gov/spacestation/

Expedition 75 Crew
Station Commander: Jessica Meir
Roscosmos (Russia) Flight Engineers: Andrey Fedyaev, Anna Kikina, Pyotr Dubrov

European Space Agency Flight Engineer: Sophie Adenot

NASA Flight Engineers: Jack Hathaway, Anil Menon

An international partnership of space agencies provides and operates the elements of the International Space Station (ISS). The principals are the space agencies of the United States, Russia, Europe, Japan, and Canada.

Video Credit: NASA's Johnson Space Center
Duration: 5 minutes
Date: Oct. 1, 2026

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Journey to Globular Star Cluster Messier 107 in Ophiuchus | MPG/ESO Telescope

Journey to Globular Star Cluster Messier 107 in Ophiuchus | MPG/ESO Telescope

In this zoom sequence we start with the spectacular vista of the central regions of the Milky Way galaxy. We then close in on a fuzzy ball of stars, the globular cluster Messier 107, also known as NGC 6171. It lies about 21, 000 light-years away in the constellation of Ophiuchus. The final close up view was created from exposures taken through blue, green and near-infrared filters, using the Wide Field Imager (WFI) on the MPG/ESO 2.2-meter telescope at La Silla Observatory, Chile.

Messier 107 is around 13 arcminutes across, equivalent to about 80 light-years at its distance. As is typical of globular clusters, a population of thousands of old stars in Messier 107 is densely concentrated into a volume that is only about twenty times the distance between our Sun and its nearest stellar neighbor, Alpha Centauri, across. 

Learn about MPG/ESO 2.2-meter telescope: https://www.eso.org/public/teles-instr/lasilla/mpg22/

Credit: European Southern Observatory (ESO)/ESO Imaging Survey

Duration: 49 seconds

Release Date: Dec. 8, 2010

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Wide-view: Globular Star Cluster Messier 107 in Ophiuchus | MPG/ESO Telescope

Wide-view: Globular Star Cluster Messier 107 in Ophiuchus | MPG/ESO Telescope

The globular cluster Messier 107, also known as NGC 6171, is located about 21,000 light-years away in the constellation of Ophiuchus. Messier 107 is around 13 arcminutes across, equivalent to about 80 light-years at its distance. As is typical of globular clusters, a population of thousands of old stars in Messier 107 is densely concentrated into a volume that is only about twenty times the distance between our Sun and its nearest stellar neighbor, Alpha Centauri, across. 

This image was created from exposures taken through blue, green and near-infrared filters, using the Wide Field Imager (WFI) on the MPG/ESO 2.2-meter telescope at La Silla Observatory, Chile.

Learn about MPG/ESO 2.2-meter telescope: https://www.eso.org/public/teles-instr/lasilla/mpg22/

Credit: European Southern Observatory (ESO)/ESO Imaging Survey

Release Date: Dec. 8, 2010

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Earth Flyby: Europe's Jupiter Icy Moons Explorer (JUICE) | Jupiter Arrival in 2031

Earth Flyby: Europe's Jupiter Icy Moons Explorer (JUICE) | Jupiter Arrival in 2031

On September 28, 2026, the European Space Agency’s Jupiter Icy Moons Explorer (JUICE) successfully completed a gravity assist flyby of Earth. Flight controllers guided the spacecraft close to our home planet to increase its velocity by 3.5 km/s and deflect its trajectory by an angle of 20°. As JUICE flew just 8640 km above the Indian Ocean, it snapped a series of images with its onboard monitoring cameras, giving us a unique ‘JUICE eye view’ of our home planet.

JUICE is the first interplanetary spacecraft to the outer Solar System planets not launched by the United States and the first intended to orbit a moon other than Earth's Moon. It was launched by the European Space Agency from its Guiana Space Center in French Guiana in April 2023. Airbus was the main contractor. It is expected to reach Jupiter in July 2031 after four gravity assists and eight years of travel. In December 2034, the spacecraft will enter orbit around Ganymede for its close-up science mission. Its period of operations will overlap with NASA's Europa Clipper mission, launched in October 2024.

JUICE’s monitoring cameras provide 1024 x 1024 pixel snapshots that can be processed in color. Their main purpose is to monitor the spacecraft’s various booms and antennas, especially during the challenging period after launch. The photos they captured of Earth during the flyby are a bonus.

In the first seconds of the video we see a view from Juice monitoring camera 2—or JMC2—with Earth appearing as a thin crescent at the bottom right of the frame. Around ten seconds in, we switch to a view from JMC1, with almost the entire disc of Earth visible at the top right of the frame. The large land mass that we see is Africa. Even the Moon is visible as a tiny grey dot to Earth’s right. At the very end of the video, JMC1 gives us a final view of Earth in the distance as it flies away on September 29.

Read more about the flyby: 
https://www.esa.int/Science_Exploration/Space_Science/Juice/Successful_Earth_flyby_improves_Juice_s_course_to_Jupiter

Read more about Juice’s monitoring cameras: 
https://www.esa.int/ESA_Multimedia/Images/2023/05/A_guide_to_Juice_s_monitoring_cameras

Credits: European Space Agency (ESA)/Juice/JMC
Acknowledgments: Simeon Schmauß
Duration: 55 seconds
Release Date: Oct. 2, 2026

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Barnard 68: The Black Cloud in Ophiuchus | European Southern Observatory

Barnard 68: The Black Cloud in Ophiuchus | European Southern Observatory

Barnard 68 is a molecular cloud, dark absorption nebula or Bok globule, towards the southern constellation Ophiuchus and well within the Milky Way galaxy at a distance of about 407 light-years. It is close and dense enough that stars behind it cannot be seen from Earth. It is known as Barnard 68 (B68) after the American astronomer, Edward E. Barnard (1857-1923). He included it in a list of such objects, published in 1919. It appears as a compact, opaque and rather sharply defined object against a rich, background star field. Even on this image that registers many faint stars in the area, not a single foreground star is observed. This is a clear sign that this globule must be relatively nearby. Interstellar clouds consist of gas and dust, including many molecules that contain carbon atoms (i.e. organic). 

For a long time considered to be "holes in the sky", molecular clouds are now known to be among the coolest objects in the Universe (the temperature is approx. 10 K, or -263 °C). Moreover, and most importantly, they are nurseries of stars and planets. It still remains a mystery how a dark cloud like Barnard 68 at one moment begins to contract and subsequently transforms itself into hydrogen-burning stars. However, deep images of these clouds, such as this one obtained by the FOcal Reducer and low dispersion Spectrograph (FORS1) on the European Southern Observatory's Very Large Telescope's ANTU, may provide important clues. This small cloud seems to be in its very earliest phase of collapse.

This three-color composite was reproduced from one blue (B), one green-yellow (V) and one near-infrared (I) exposure that were obtained with VLT ANTU and FORS1 in the early morning of March 27, 1999. The field measures 6.8x6.8 arcmin 2. The image consists of 2048x2048 pixels, each measuring 0.20 arcsec. North is up and East is to the left.

Learn more about ESO's Very Large Telescope in Chile:

https://www.hq.eso.org/public/teles-instr/paranal-observatory/vlt/

Credit: European Southern Observatory (ESO)
Release Date: April 30, 1999

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Hot-staging Maneuver on SpaceX Starship Flight 14 (Starship 1st stage view)

Hot-staging Maneuver on SpaceX Starship Flight 14 (Starship 1st stage view)

After a successful first-stage ascent on its Super Heavy Booster, watch a hot-staging maneuver where Starship’s upper stage ignited all six of its Raptor engines to continue onward to space. The 14th test flight occurred on Monday morning, September 28, 2026, from Starbase Texas. It was the first morning launch from Starbase since Flight 5 in 2024. Starship later deployed 26 Starlink V3 satellites into low Earth orbit (LEO) for the first time.

Watch a replay of Flight Test#14 and read a summary of the results here:

https://www.spacex.com/launches/starship-flight-14

NASA plans to use a lunar lander version of Starship to deliver astronauts and cargo to the Moon during the Artemis IV mission and beyond through the Human Landing System (HLS) Program.

Learn more about Starship:
https://www.spacex.com/vehicles/starship/

Download the Free Starship User Guide (PDF):
https://www.spacex.com/media/starship_users_guide_v1.pdf

Video Credit: SpaceX

Duration: 16 seconds

Date: Sept. 28, 2026

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Hot-staging Maneuver on SpaceX Starship Flight 14 (Starship 2nd stage view)

Hot-staging Maneuver on SpaceX Starship Flight 14 (Starship 2nd stage view)

After a successful first-stage ascent on its Super Heavy Booster, watch a hot-staging maneuver where Starship’s upper stage ignited all six of its Raptor engines to continue onward to space. The 14th test flight occurred on Monday morning, September 28, 2026, from Starbase Texas. It was the first morning launch from Starbase since Flight 5 in 2024. Starship later deployed 26 Starlink V3 satellites into low Earth orbit (LEO) for the first time.

Watch a replay of Flight Test#14 and read a summary of the results here:

https://www.spacex.com/launches/starship-flight-14

NASA plans to use a lunar lander version of Starship to deliver astronauts and cargo to the Moon during the Artemis IV mission and beyond through the Human Landing System (HLS) Program.

Learn more about Starship:
https://www.spacex.com/vehicles/starship/

Download the Free Starship User Guide (PDF):
https://www.spacex.com/media/starship_users_guide_v1.pdf

Video Credit: SpaceX

Duration: 17 seconds

Date: Sept. 28, 2026

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¿Qué pasa en el cielo en octubre? | NASA/JPL

¿Qué pasa en el cielo en octubre? | NASA/JPL

¡Atención, exploradores del cielo! Este mes, Saturno toma un lugar protagonista, una lluvia de meteoros ilumina el cielo y la Luna visita a las Siete Hermanas, las Pléyades. 

Esto es lo que pasa en el cielo en octubre de 2026.

Adaptación al español por el equipo de NASA en español

What's Up for October 2026: Skywatching Tips from NASA | JPL

Saturn takes center stage, a meteor shower lights up the sky, and the Moon visits the Seven Sisters.

On October 4, Saturn reaches opposition, giving skywatchers one of the year's best opportunities to see the ringed planet. In addition, learn about a 10-sided atmospheric wave encircling Saturn's south pole that was recently revealed by NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope.

The Orionid meteor shower peaks October 21-22. Debris from Halley's Comet produces the meteors, but this year, a bright Moon will obscure some of the fainter streaks. The best viewing chances will likely be the hours before dawn, after the Moon sets.

Then, on October 27-28, look east in the evening for the Moon passing close to the Pleiades, also known as the Seven Sisters. The star cluster is visible to the unaided eye and even more spectacular through binoculars.

0:00 Intro

0:10 Saturn at Opposition

0:30 Saturn's South Pole Decagon 

1:01 The Orionids Peak

1:39 The Pleiades aka Seven Sist    ers

2:20 Phases of the Moon 

Créditos: Laboratorio de propulsión a chorro de la NASA (JPL) 
Release Date: Oct. 2, 2026

Duration: 2 minutes, 49 seconds

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Expedition 75 Crew Photos | International Space Station

Expedition 75 Crew Photos | International Space Station

The seven-member Expedition 75 crew poses for a portrait inside the International Space Station. Clockwise from left are, NASA astronauts Jessica Meir and Jack Hathaway, Roscosmos cosmonauts Anna Kikina and Andrey Fedyaev of Russia, astronauts Anil Menon of NASA and Sophie Adenot of the European Space Agency, and Roscosmos cosmonaut Pyotr Dubrov of Russia.

The four members of NASA's SpaceX Crew-12 mission pose for a portrait inside the vestibule between the SpaceX Dragon spacecraft and the International Space Station. Clockwise from left are, NASA astronauts Jessica Meir and Jack Hathaway, European Space Agency astronaut Sophie Adenot, and Roscosmos cosmonaut Andrey Fedyaev of Russia, displaying their mission's insignia sticker.

NASA astronaut and Expedition 75 commander Jessica Meir shows off a tissue chamber that houses samples for viewing inside the Nikon Experimentation Microscope in Orbit (NEMO). Located inside the International Space Station's Destiny laboratory module, NEMO enables automated imaging of growing cells to study microgravity’s effects on disease, tissue development, and drug responses.

NASA astronaut and Expedition 75 flight engineer Anil Menon tests and fits components of a new cooling system, called the Supplemental Heat Rejection Evaporative Cooler, that will soon be installed in the Destiny laboratory module.

European Space Agency astronaut and Expedition 75 flight engineer Sophie Adenot points at her mission's sticker affixed to the inside of the International Space Station's Quest airlock where spacesuits are staged and prepared for spacewalks.

Expedition 75 commander, flight engineer, and NASA astronaut Jessica Meir: "The vibe. This shot (photo 1) perfectly captures Expedition 75. We’re all smiles thinking about our time together and the arrival of Crew-13 (they’re in the shot too, just behind us awaiting their hatch opening!). We took a moment to capture a few formations only possible in microgravity! Excited for Crew-13 to join in the fun."

Follow Expedition 75:

https://blogs.nasa.gov/spacestation/

Expedition 75 Crew
Station Commander: Jessica Meir
Roscosmos (Russia) Flight Engineers: Andrey Fedyaev, Anna Kikina, Pyotr Dubrov

European Space Agency Flight Engineer: Sophie Adenot

NASA Flight Engineers: Jack Hathaway, Anil Menon

An international partnership of space agencies provides and operates the elements of the International Space Station (ISS). The principals are the space agencies of the United States, Russia, Europe, Japan, and Canada.

Image Credits: NASA's Johnson Space Center, J. Meir, J. Hathaway

Dates: Sept. 22-Oct. 2, 2026

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NASA's SpaceX Crew-13: Falcon 9 Rocket Liftoff and First Stage Landing

NASA's SpaceX Crew-13: Falcon 9 Rocket Liftoff and First Stage Landing

A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket launched Crew-13 to the International Space Station aboard their Crew Dragon spacecraft at 11:10 a.m. Eastern Time (ET) from Cape Canaveral in Florida.

Crew-13: NASA astronauts Jessica Watkins and Luke Delaney, Canadian Space Agency astronaut Joshua Kutryk, and Roscosmos cosmonaut Sergey Teteryatnikov of Russia 

They will spend the next several months in orbit, helping us learn how to live in space while running scientific experiments intended to help make life better back on Earth.

The Dragon spacecraft supporting this mission previously flew the Ax-4, mission to and from the International Space Station. This was the third flight for the first stage supporting this mission, which previously launched Crew-12 and one Starlink mission. Following stage separation, Falcon 9’s first stage landed on Landing Zone 40 (LZ-40) at Cape Canaveral.

Watch the launch replay:

https://spacex.com/launches/crew13

Follow Expedition 75:

https://blogs.nasa.gov/spacestation/

Expedition 75 Crew
Station Commander: Jessica Meir
Roscosmos (Russia) Flight Engineers: Andrey Fedyaev, Anna Kikina, Pyotr Dubrov

European Space Agency Flight Engineer: Sophie Adenot

NASA Flight Engineers: Jack Hathaway, Anil Menon

An international partnership of space agencies provides and operates the elements of the International Space Station (ISS). The principals are the space agencies of the United States, Russia, Europe, Japan, and Canada.

Video Credit: SpaceX

Duration: 29 seconds

Date: Oct. 1, 2026

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NASA's SpaceX Crew-13: Falcon 9 & Dragon Liftoff | International Space Station

NASA's SpaceX Crew-13: Falcon 9 & Dragon Liftoff | International Space Station

A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket launched Crew-13 to the International Space Station aboard their Crew Dragon spacecraft at 11:10 a.m. Eastern Time (ET) from Cape Canaveral in Florida.

Crew-13: NASA astronauts Jessica Watkins and Luke Delaney, Canadian Space Agency astronaut Joshua Kutryk, and Roscosmos cosmonaut Sergey Teteryatnikov of Russia 

They will spend the next several months in orbit, helping us learn how to live in space while running scientific experiments intended to help make life better back on Earth.

The Dragon spacecraft supporting this mission previously flew the Ax-4, mission to and from the International Space Station. This was the third flight for the first stage supporting this mission, which previously launched Crew-12 and one Starlink mission. Following stage separation, Falcon 9’s first stage landed on Landing Zone 40 (LZ-40) at Cape Canaveral.

Watch the launch replay:

https://spacex.com/launches/crew13

Follow Expedition 75:

https://blogs.nasa.gov/spacestation/

Expedition 75 Crew
Station Commander: Jessica Meir
Roscosmos (Russia) Flight Engineers: Andrey Fedyaev, Anna Kikina, Pyotr Dubrov

European Space Agency Flight Engineer: Sophie Adenot

NASA Flight Engineers: Jack Hathaway, Anil Menon

An international partnership of space agencies provides and operates the elements of the International Space Station (ISS). The principals are the space agencies of the United States, Russia, Europe, Japan, and Canada.

Image Credits: SpaceX, Joel Kowsky

Date: Oct. 1, 2026

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What's Up for October 2026? Skywatching Tips from NASA | JPL

What's Up for October 2026: Skywatching Tips from NASA | JPL

Saturn takes center stage, a meteor shower lights up the sky, and the Moon visits the Seven Sisters.

On October 4, Saturn reaches opposition, giving skywatchers one of the year's best opportunities to see the ringed planet. In addition, learn about a 10-sided atmospheric wave encircling Saturn's south pole that was recently revealed by NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope.

The Orionid meteor shower peaks October 21-22. Debris from Halley's Comet produces the meteors, but this year, a bright Moon will obscure some of the fainter streaks. The best viewing chances will likely be the hours before dawn, after the Moon sets.

Then, on October 27-28, look east in the evening for the Moon passing close to the Pleiades, also known as the Seven Sisters. The star cluster is visible to the unaided eye and even more spectacular through binoculars.

0:00 Intro

0:10 Saturn at Opposition

0:30 Saturn's South Pole Decagon 

1:01 The Orionids Peak

1:39 The Pleiades aka Seven Sisters

2:20 Phases of the Moon 

Video Credit: NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory
Duration: 2 minutes, 42 seconds
Release Date: Oct. 1, 2026

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Canadian Space Agency Astronaut Joshua Kutryk: Crew-13 Mission Specialist

Canadian Space Agency Astronaut Joshua Kutryk: Crew-13 Mission Specialist

Canadian Space Agency (CSA) astronaut Joshua Kutryk is a mission specialist for NASA’s SpaceX Crew-13 mission. This is his first spaceflight. Upon his arrival to the International Space Station, he will join Expedition 75, kicking off a long-duration science expedition aboard the orbiting laboratory. He was selected as a CSA astronaut in 2017. The Fort Saskatchewan, Alberta native, earned a bachelor’s degree in mechanical engineering from the Royal Military College of Canada in Kingston, Ontario, and is a distinguished graduate of the United States Air Force Test Pilot school in Edwards, California. He also has master’s degrees in space studies, flight test engineering, and defense studies. He served as a CF-18 fighter pilot, flying missions in support of Canada’s NATO, U.N., and North American Aerospace Defense Command commitments, and also worked as an experimental and operational test pilot at the Aerospace Engineering Test Establishment in Cold Lake, Alberta.

Joshua Kutryk Biography:
https://www.asc-csa.gc.ca/eng/astronauts/canadian/active/bio-joshua-kutryk.asp

An international partnership of space agencies provides and operates the elements of the International Space Station (ISS). The principals are the space agencies of the United States, Russia, Europe, Japan, and Canada.

Video Credit: NASA's Johnson Space Center
Duration: 2 minutes, 36 seconds
Release Date: Oct. 1, 2026

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NASA Astronaut Luke Delaney: Crew-13 Pilot | International Space Station

NASA Astronaut Luke Delaney: Crew-13 Pilot | International Space Station

NASA astronaut Luke Delaney is the pilot of NASA’s SpaceX Crew-13 mission. This is his first spaceflight. Upon his arrival to the International Space Station, he will join Expedition 75, kicking off a long-duration science expedition aboard the orbiting laboratory. He was selected as a NASA astronaut in 2021. The Florida native, earned a bachelor’s degree in mechanical engineering at the University of North Florida and a master’s degree in aerospace engineering at the Naval Postgraduate School. He is a distinguished naval aviator who participated in exercises throughout the Asia Pacific region and conducted missions in support of Operation Enduring Freedom. As a test pilot, Delaney evaluated developmental aircraft systems and served as a test pilot instructor. He also worked as a research pilot at NASA’s Langley Research Center in Hampton, Virginia, where he supported airborne science missions.

Luke Delaney Biography: 
https://www.nasa.gov/people/nasa-astronaut-luke-delaney/

An international partnership of space agencies provides and operates the elements of the International Space Station (ISS). The principals are the space agencies of the United States, Russia, Europe, Japan, and Canada.

Video Credit: NASA's Johnson Space Center
Duration: 2 minutes, 36 seconds
Release Date: Oct. 1, 2026

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Roscosmos Cosmonaut Sergey Teteryatnikov of Russia: Crew-13 Mission Specialist

Roscosmos Cosmonaut Sergey Teteryatnikov of Russia: Crew-13 Mission Specialist

Roscosmos cosmonaut Sergey Teteryatnikov of Russia is a mission specialist for NASA’s SpaceX Crew-13 mission. This is his first spaceflight. Upon his arrival to the International Space Station, he will join Expedition 75, kicking off a long-duration science expedition aboard the orbiting laboratory. He was selected for the Gagarin Research and Test Cosmonaut Training Center Cosmonaut Corps in 2021 and has served as a test cosmonaut since 2023. He graduated from the Naval Academy, St. Petersburg, Russia, in 2011 as an engineer specializing in ship power plant operations. He also served in various naval engineering roles, including undersea vessels and specialized engine room operations.

An international partnership of space agencies provides and operates the elements of the International Space Station (ISS). The principals are the space agencies of the United States, Russia, Europe, Japan, and Canada.

Video Credit: NASA's Johnson Space Center
Duration: 2 minutes
Release Date: Oct. 1, 2026

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