Overview
- A SpaceX Falcon 9 launched Crew‑13 from Cape Canaveral on Oct. 1, 2026 carrying NASA astronauts Jessica Watkins and Luke Delaney, Canadian astronaut Joshua Kutryk, and Roscosmos cosmonaut Sergey Teteryatnikov.
- Dragon docked autonomously to the ISS about 7 hours 50 minutes after liftoff, the fastest U.S. launch‑to‑docking time for a Crew Dragon flight.
- The launch followed a roughly three‑week delay to inspect and repair an oxidizer/propulsion leak on the Crew‑13 Dragon that NASA and SpaceX resolved before flight.
- Crew‑13 has joined Expedition 75 for a planned six‑month stay to run human‑health experiments, stem‑cell‑derived tissue work, inflight diagnostics and plant growth tests that support longer lunar and Mars missions.
- SpaceX recovered the Falcon 9 first stage at Landing Zone 40 on its third flight, and NASA plans a short handover so Crew‑12 can return to Earth and free the docking port for upcoming resupply missions.