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NASA, SpaceX Move to Final Crew-13 Prelaunch Prep for Oct. 1 Liftoff [1]

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Date: 2026-09-22  

NASA, SpaceX Move to Final Crew-13 Prelaunch Prep for Oct. 1 Liftoff

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, NASA astronauts Jessica Watkins and Luke Delaney, and CSA (Canadian Space Agency) astronaut Joshua Kutryk. SpaceX

NASA and SpaceX are targeting 11:10 a.m. EDT, Thursday, Oct. 1, as the earliest launch opportunity for the Crew-13 mission to the International Space Station. Over the next several days, teams will complete a series of prelaunch activities and intensive reviews to confirm the crew, the space station, and SpaceX’s Dragon spacecraft, and Falcon 9 rocket are ready for liftoff from Space Launch Complex 40 at Cape Canaveral Space Force Station in Florida.

For an Oct. 1 launch, Crew-13 will arrive at the orbiting laboratory less than nine hours later, with docking planned for about 8 p.m., to the forward-facing port of the Harmony module.

NASA astronauts Jessica Watkins and Luke Delaney will serve as spacecraft commander and pilot, respectively, and CSA (Canadian Space Agency) astronaut Joshua Kutryk and Roscosmos cosmonaut Sergey Teteryatnikov will serve as mission specialists. After arriving at the orbiting laboratory, Crew-13 will become members of the space station’s Expedition 75. Crew-13 is in quarantine at the agency’s Johnson Space Center in Houston and will travel to NASA Kennedy on Saturday, Sept. 26.

Learn more about the mission by following the commercial crew blog, @NASASpaceOps and @space_station on X, as well as the International Space Station’s Facebook and Instagram accounts.

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