NASA's SpaceX Crew-13: Dragon Training in California | International Space Station
The SpaceX Crew-13 members pose for a portrait in their pressure suits during a preflight training session at the company's headquarters in Hawthorne, California. From left are, Roscosmos Sergey Teteryatnikov of Russia, NASA astronauts Jessica Watkins and Luke Delaney, and Canadian Space Agency (CSA) astronaut Joshua Kutryk.
The SpaceX Crew-13 members are pictured in their pressure suits seated inside a mockup Dragon spacecraft during a preflight training session at the company's headquarters in Hawthorne, California. From left are, Roscosmos Sergey Teteryatnikov of Russia, NASA astronauts Luke Delaney and Jessica Watkins, and Canadian Space Agency (CSA) astronaut Joshua Kutryk.
NASA astronaut and SpaceX Crew-13 commander Jessica Watkins is pictured in her pressure suit seated inside a mockup Dragon spacecraft during a preflight training session at the company's headquarters in Hawthorne, California.
Roscosmos cosmonaut and SpaceX Crew-13 mission specialist Sergey Teteryatnikov is pictured in his pressure suit seated inside a mockup Dragon spacecraft during a preflight training session at the company's headquarters in Hawthorne, California.
Canadian Space Agency (CSA) astronaut and SpaceX Crew-13 mission specialist Josh Kutryk is pictured in his pressure suit seated inside a mockup Dragon spacecraft during a preflight training session at the company's headquarters in Hawthorne, California.
Crew-13 emblem
Members of NASA's SpaceX Crew-13 Mission are pictured during training at SpaceX headquarters in Hawthorne, California. Four crew members from three space agencies will launch no earlier than mid-September 2026 to the International Space Station for a long-duration science expedition.
NASA astronauts Jessica Watkins and Luke Delaney will serve as spacecraft commander and pilot, respectively. They will be joined by the Canadian Space Agency (CSA) astronaut Joshua Kutryk and Roscosmos cosmonaut Sergey Teteryatnikov of Russia that will serve as mission specialists. After arriving at the orbiting laboratory, Crew-13 will become members of the space station’s Expedition 75.
This flight is the 13th crew rotation with SpaceX to the space station as part of NASA’s Commercial Crew Program (CCP). NASA is advancing the launch date of Crew-13 from November to help increase the frequency of U.S. crew rotation missions to the space station. The crew will conduct scientific investigations and technology demonstrations to help prepare humans for future exploration missions to the Moon and Mars, and benefit people on Earth.
This will be the second flight to the space station for Watkins. She will be the first NASA astronaut to launch aboard a SpaceX Dragon spacecraft twice.
This is the first spaceflight for Delaney, Kutryk, and Teteryatnikov.
For more than 25 years, people have lived and worked continuously aboard the International Space Station, advancing scientific knowledge and making research breakthroughs that are not possible on Earth. The space station helps NASA understand and overcome the challenges of human spaceflight, expand commercial opportunities in low Earth orbit, and build on the foundation for long-duration missions to the Moon, as part of the Artemis program, and to Mars.
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 Credit: SpaceX
Image Date: April 30, 2026
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