NASA schedules SpaceX Crew-13 for a 1 October launch, with a planned transit of about 7 hours 50 minutes to the space station

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NASA schedules SpaceX Crew-13 for a 1 October launch, with a planned transit of about 7 hours 50 minutes to the space station

30 September 2026

NASA has set the SpaceX Crew-13 launch for Thursday 1 October 2026 at 11:10 a.m. EDT from Space Launch Complex 40, Cape Canaveral Space Force Station.
The crew is Commander Jessica Watkins and Pilot Luke Delaney of NASA, Joshua Kutryk of the Canadian Space Agency and Sergey Teteryatnikov of Roscosmos.
The Dragon is to dock at the Harmony module's forward-facing port at about 7 p.m. EDT.
The transit of about 7 hours 50 minutes would be the fastest by a U.S. spacecraft in space station history.
Crew-12 is scheduled to return no earlier than 5 October 2026.

Launch: 1 October 2026, 11:10 a.m. EDT Transit time: About 7 hours 50 minutes Launch site: Space Launch Complex 40, Cape Canaveral

Why it matters for exams: Crewed missions to the International Space Station and international crew composition are recurring science and technology questions.

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30 September 2026 Source: NASA

In plain words

ISS International Space Station — It is a crewed research laboratory orbiting Earth, run by several space agencies.

Harmony ISS node module — It is a connecting module of the station with docking ports.