From left to right, Jennifer Jones, and Richard Jones, deputy program manager, Commercial Crew Office of Low Earth Orbit Program, raise the agency’s SpaceX Crew-13 mission flag near the countdown clock at the NASA News Center at the agency’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida on Tuesday, Sept. 29, 2026. The Crew-13 mission will send NASA astronauts Jessica Watkins and Luke Delaney, CSA (Canadian Space Agency) astronaut Joshua Kutryk, and Roscosmos cosmonaut Sergey Teteryatnikov to the International Space Station aboard SpaceX’s Dragon spacecraft and Falcon 9 rocket at 11:10 a.m. EDT on Thursday, Oct. 1, from Cape Canaveral Space Force Station’s Space Launch Complex 40.

From left to right, Mary Lawrence, director Commercial Crew Office; Dana Weigel, manager, Low Earth Orbit Program; Dana Hutcherson, deputy director, Commercial Crew Office; Jennifer Jones, and Richard Jones, deputy program manager, Commercial Crew Office of Low Earth Orbit Program, raise the agency’s SpaceX Crew-13 mission flag near the countdown clock at the NASA News Center at the agency’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida on Tuesday, Sept. 29, 2026. The Crew-13 mission will send NASA astronauts Jessica Watkins and Luke Delaney, CSA (Canadian Space Agency) astronaut Joshua Kutryk, and Roscosmos cosmonaut Sergey Teteryatnikov to the International Space Station aboard SpaceX’s Dragon spacecraft and Falcon 9 rocket at 11:10 a.m. EDT on Thursday, Oct. 1, from Cape Canaveral Space Force Station’s Space Launch Complex 40.

Richard Jones, deputy program manager, Commercial Crew Office, raises the agency’s SpaceX Crew-13 mission flag near the countdown clock at the NASA News Center at the agency’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida on Tuesday, Sept. 29, 2026. The Crew-13 mission will send NASA astronauts Jessica Watkins and Luke Delaney, CSA (Canadian Space Agency) astronaut Joshua Kutryk, and Roscosmos cosmonaut Sergey Teteryatnikov to the International Space Station aboard SpaceX’s Dragon spacecraft and Falcon 9 rocket at 11:10 a.m. EDT on Thursday, Oct. 1, from Cape Canaveral Space Force Station’s Space Launch Complex 40.

Members of NASA's Commercial Crew Office within the Low Earth Orbit Program pose for a photograph with the agency’s SpaceX Crew-13 mission flag near the countdown clock at the NASA News Center at the agency’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida on Tuesday, Sept. 29, 2026. The Crew-13 mission will send NASA astronauts Jessica Watkins and Luke Delaney, CSA (Canadian Space Agency) astronaut Joshua Kutryk, and Roscosmos cosmonaut Sergey Teteryatnikov to the International Space Station aboard SpaceX’s Dragon spacecraft and Falcon 9 rocket at 11:10 a.m. EDT on Thursday, Oct. 1, from Cape Canaveral Space Force Station’s Space Launch Complex 40.

From left to right, Mary Lawrence, director Commercial Crew Office; Dana Weigel, manager, Low Earth Orbit Program; Dana Hutcherson, deputy director, Commercial Crew Office; Jennifer Jones, and Richard Jones, deputy program manager, Commercial Crew Office of Low Earth Orbit Program, raise the agency’s SpaceX Crew-13 mission flag near the countdown clock at the NASA News Center at the agency’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida on Tuesday, Sept. 29, 2026. The Crew-13 mission will send NASA astronauts Jessica Watkins and Luke Delaney, CSA (Canadian Space Agency) astronaut Joshua Kutryk, and Roscosmos cosmonaut Sergey Teteryatnikov to the International Space Station aboard SpaceX’s Dragon spacecraft and Falcon 9 rocket at 11:10 a.m. EDT on Thursday, Oct. 1, from Cape Canaveral Space Force Station’s Space Launch Complex 40.