NASA's SpaceX Crew-13 Prelaunch News Conference (Sept. 30, 2026)

Mission experts give a preview of NASA's SpaceX Crew-13 mission to the International Space Station ahead of its launch.



Participants include:

- Dr. Lori Glaze, associate administrator, Human Spaceflight Mission Directorate, NASA Headquarters

- Dana Weigel, manager, Low Earth Orbit Program, NASA Johnson

- Mathieu Caron, director, Astronauts, Life Sciences, and Space Medicine, CSA

- William Gerstenmaier, vice president, Build and Flight Reliability, SpaceX

- Arlena Moses, launch weather officer, Cape Canaveral Space Force Station’s 45th Weather Squadron



Crew-13 is scheduled to launch at 11:10 a.m. EDT (1510 UTC), Thursday, Oct. 1, from Space Launch Complex 40 at Cape Canaveral Space Force Station in Florida, with docking planned for about 7 p.m. EDT (2300 UTC).



The SpaceX Dragon spacecraft will carry Jessica Watkins and Luke Delaney, CSA (Canadian Space Agency) astronaut Joshua Kutryk, and Roscosmos cosmonaut Sergey Teteryatnikov to the International Space Station for a long-duration science mission.



Learn more about Crew-13: https://www.nasa.gov/mission/nasas-spacex-crew-13