NASA's SpaceX Crew-13: Dragon Training in California | International Space Station

NASA's SpaceX Crew-13: Dragon Training in California | International Space Station

NASA astronaut and SpaceX Crew-13 Commander Jessica Watkins poses in her pressure suit in front of a Dragon spacecraft mockup during a pre-flight training session on Wednesday, June 8, 2026, at SpaceX headquarters in Hawthorne, California.

NASA astronaut and SpaceX Crew-13 Commander Jessica Watkins sits inside a Dragon spacecraft mockup while participating in a pre‑flight training session

Roscosmos cosmonaut and SpaceX Crew-13 Mission Specialist Sergey Teteryatnikov of Russia gestures with his fingers to show the number 13, representing his mission to the International Space Station aboard a Dragon spacecraft. Teteryatnikov poses in his pressure suit in front of a Dragon spacecraft mockup during a pre‑flight training session

Roscosmos cosmonaut and SpaceX Crew‑13 Mission Specialist Sergey Teteryatnikov of Russia sits inside a Dragon spacecraft mockup while participating in a pre‑flight training session

NASA astronaut and SpaceX Crew-13 Pilot Luke Delaney gestures with his fingers to show the number 13, representing his mission to the International Space Station aboard a Dragon spacecraft. Delaney poses in his pressure suit in front of a Dragon spacecraft mockup during a pre-flight training session

NASA astronaut and SpaceX Crew‑13 Pilot Luke Delaney sits inside a Dragon spacecraft mockup while tapping a cockpit screen interface during a pre‑flight training session

Canadian Space Agency (CSA) astronaut and SpaceX Crew-13 Mission Specialist Joshua Kutryk gestures with his fingers to show the number 13, representing his mission to the International Space Station aboard a Dragon spacecraft. Kutryk poses in his pressure suit in front of a Dragon spacecraft mockup during a pre-flight training session

Canadian Space Agency (CSA) astronaut and SpaceX Crew-13 Mission Specialist Joshua Kutryk sits inside a Dragon spacecraft mockup while participating in a pre‑flight training session

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.

Learn more about International Space Station research and operations at:
https://www.nasa.gov/station

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: June 8, 2026

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