NASA and SpaceX were targeting 11:10 a.m. EDT on Thursday, Oct. 1, 2026, as the earliest launch opportunity for the Crew-13 mission to the International Space Station, the agency reported on Sept. 22, 2026. Teams were to complete prelaunch activities and intensive reviews in the following days to confirm the crew, the station, and SpaceX's Dragon spacecraft and Falcon 9 rocket were ready to lift off from Space Launch Complex 40 at Cape Canaveral Space Force Station in Florida.

On that plan, a launch on Oct. 1 would have Crew-13 arriving at the orbiting laboratory less than nine hours later, with docking planned for about 8 p.m. at the forward-facing port of the Harmony module. NASA astronauts Jessica Watkins and Luke Delaney were to serve as spacecraft commander and pilot, with CSA astronaut Joshua Kutryk and Roscosmos cosmonaut Sergey Teteryatnikov as mission specialists. Once aboard, Crew-13 would join Expedition 75.

The crew was in quarantine at NASA's Johnson Space Center in Houston and was scheduled to travel to NASA Kennedy on Saturday, Sept. 26.