NASA & SpaceX Adjust Crew-13 Launch Date | International Space Station

NASA & SpaceX Adjust Crew-13 Launch Date | International Space Station

The four members of NASA's SpaceX Crew-13 mission to the International Space Station display their mission plaque inside a training mockup of a space station module. From left are, Commander Jessica Watkins and Pilot Luke Delaney, both from NASA, and Mission Specialists Joshua Kutryk of the Canadian Space Agency (CSA) and Sergey Teteryatnikov of Roscosmos (Russia).

NASA astronaut Jessica Watkins, commander of NASA’s SpaceX Crew-13 mission

Roscosmos cosmonaut Sergey Teteryatnikov of Russia, mission specialist of NASA’s SpaceX Crew-13 mission

NASA astronaut Luke Delaney, pilot of NASA’s SpaceX Crew-13 mission

Canadian Space Agency (CSA) astronaut Joshua Kutryk, mission specialist of NASA’s SpaceX Crew-13 mission

NASA's SpaceX Crew-13 emblem

NASA and SpaceX are adjusting the launch date for the agency’s Crew-13 mission to the International Space Station to address an oxidizer leak on their Dragon spacecraft’s propulsion system. It was detected during standard prelaunch spacecraft processing. Joint NASA and SpaceX teams are performing additional tests and data review and will complete any necessary rework prior to launch. A new target date will be announced once available.

NASA astronauts Jessica Watkins and Luke Delaney will serve as spacecraft commander and pilot, respectively. They will be joined by Canadian Space Agency (CSA) astronaut Joshua Kutryk and Roscosmos cosmonaut Sergey Teteryatnikov of Russia, who will serve as mission specialists. After arriving at the orbiting laboratory, Crew-13 will become members of the space station’s Expedition 75. The crew will enter quarantine about two weeks prior to flight from the agency’s Johnson Space Center in Houston.

Crew-13 will lift off aboard SpaceX’s Dragon spacecraft on the company’s Falcon 9 rocket from Space Launch Complex 40 in Cape Canaveral, Florida.

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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/Morgan Gridley, SpaceX
Release Date: Aug. 1, 2026

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