In a report published Sept. 25, 2026, NASA said four Expedition 75 crew members aboard the International Space Station were nearing the end of their stay and awaiting their replacements. NASA astronauts Jessica Meir and Jack Hathaway, ESA astronaut Sophie Adenot and Roscosmos cosmonaut Andrey Fedyaev were packing cargo inside the SpaceX Dragon spacecraft planned to bring them home in October, the report said. The quartet joined ground controllers in a simulation of atmospheric reentry after nearly eight months in space.

NASA said the SpaceX Crew-13 mission was scheduled to launch Oct. 1 from Cape Canaveral Space Force Station, with Jessica Watkins commanding and Luke Delaney piloting. Mission specialists Josh Kutryk of the Canadian Space Agency and Sergey Teteryatnikov of Roscosmos were to accompany them. The Crew-13 members began quarantine at Johnson Space Center and planned to travel to Kennedy Space Center on Saturday, Sept. 26, for final preparations.

Science work continued aboard the station, according to the report. Meir collected and centrifuged a blood sample for research on space-caused bone loss, and Adenot collected a saliva sample for the RelaxPro study on stress and relaxation. Adenot also checked lunar landing simulation hardware for the Manual Piloting study, NASA said.