A NASA report published Sept. 29, 2026, said the four-person Crew-13 team took part in a dry dress rehearsal that day at Space Launch Complex 40 at Cape Canaveral Space Force Station in Florida, with its Falcon 9 rocket and Dragon spacecraft on the pad. The astronauts spent the morning at the Neil A. Armstrong Operations and Checkout Building at Kennedy Space Center, donning spacesuits and completing air leak checks before traveling to the pad and entering the Dragon spacecraft.

Crew-13 was scheduled to launch to the International Space Station no earlier than 11:10 a.m. EDT on Thursday, Oct. 1, for a long-duration science mission, according to the report. After arrival, NASA's SpaceX Crew-12 members would help familiarize the new crew with ongoing science and station maintenance before a brief handover.

Pending weather, Crew-12 — NASA astronauts Jessica Meir and Jack Hathaway, ESA astronaut Sophie Adenot and Roscosmos cosmonaut Andrey Fedyaev — would then board its spacecraft and splash down off the coast of California. Because the source predates WeeklyTrail's publication day, all these plans are reported as of Sept. 29, 2026, and their later status is not established here.