George Alderman, deputy press secretary, participates in a postlaunch news conference at the agency’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida on Thursday, Oct. 1, 2026, following the launch of NASA’s SpaceX Crew-13 mission to the International Space Station. NASA astronauts Jessica Watkins and Luke Delaney, CSA (Canadian Space Agency) astronaut Joshua Kutryk, and Roscosmos cosmonaut Sergey Teteryatnikov launched to the International Space Station aboard SpaceX’s Dragon spacecraft and Falcon 9 rocket at 11:10 a.m. EDT on the 13th crew rotation mission with SpaceX to the space station.