Dana Weigel, manager, Low Earth Orbit Program, NASA’s Johnson Space Center in Houston, addresses the media during a prelaunch news briefing inside the John Holliman Auditorium of the NASA News Center at the agency’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida on Wednesday, Sept. 30, 2026, ahead of NASA’s SpaceX Crew-13 mission. Participants include Weigel; Dr. Lori Glaze, associate administrator, Human Spaceflight Mission Directorate, NASA Headquarters; Mathieu Caron, director, Astronauts, Life Sciences, and Space Medicine, CSA (Canadian Space Agency); and William Gerstenmaier, vice president, Build and Flight Reliability, SpaceX. The Crew-13 mission will send NASA astronauts Jessica Watkins and Luke Delaney, CSA 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.