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

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

Canadian Space Agency astronaut Joshua Kutryk, left, NASA astronauts Luke Delaney and Jessica Watkins, and Roscosmos cosmonaut Sergey Teteryatnikov of Russia, wearing SpaceX spacesuits, are seen as they prepare to depart the Neil A. Armstrong Operations and Checkout Building for Space Launch Complex 40 at Cape Canaveral to board the SpaceX Dragon spacecraft for the Crew-13 mission launch, Thursday, Oct. 1, 2026, at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida. 

Update: A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket is scheduled to launch 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. Teams are keeping an eye on the weather. It is currently 40% favorable for liftoff. 

Watch the launch here: https://spacex.com/launches/crew13
https://www.nasa.gov/live

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

Once they arrive, 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.

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: Space Exploration Technologies Corporation (SpaceX)/NASA/Joel Kowsky

Date: Oct. 1, 2026

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