NASA announced the crew of its SpaceX Crew-13 mission in an October 1 post, naming NASA astronauts Jessica Watkins as commander and Luke Delaney as pilot, alongside CSA astronaut Joshua Kutryk and Roscosmos cosmonaut Sergey Teteryatnikov as mission specialists.

Watkins, selected as a NASA astronaut in 2017, previously spent 170 days in space aboard the Crew-4 mission during Expeditions 67/68 in 2022. A geologist who once worked on the Curiosity rover science team, she will be the first NASA astronaut to launch aboard a SpaceX Dragon spacecraft twice. Delaney, a naval aviator and former test pilot selected in 2021, and Kutryk, a former CF-18 fighter pilot selected by CSA in 2017, are both making their first spaceflights. Teteryatnikov, a naval engineer selected for the Gagarin cosmonaut corps in 2021, makes his first trip to the orbiting laboratory.