Overview
- NASA announced the four-person Crew-13 on Thursday and moved the launch up to no earlier than mid-September 2026 to boost U.S. crew rotation cadence.
- Commander Jessica Watkins and pilot Luke Delaney will fly with Canadian Space Agency astronaut Joshua Kutryk and Roscosmos cosmonaut Sergey Teteryatnikov.
- Watkins will become the first NASA astronaut to ride SpaceX’s Dragon twice after her 170-day Crew-4 mission in 2022.
- Kutryk shifts from Boeing’s Starliner after test setbacks, including a 2024 crewed flight with thruster troubles that left its two astronauts on the station.
- The team will launch from Kennedy Space Center to join Expedition 75 for a roughly six-month stay focused on science and technology demos that support future Moon and Mars missions.