NASA reported on the morning of Oct. 1, 2026, that the SpaceX Crew-13 mission remained on track for a scheduled 11:10 a.m. EDT launch from Space Launch Complex 40 at Cape Canaveral Space Force Station in Florida. Fuel loading on the Falcon 9 rocket's second stage was complete, and liquid oxygen loading had begun roughly 20 minutes before the planned liftoff.

The Falcon 9 and Dragon spacecraft were set to carry NASA astronauts Jessica Watkins and Luke Delaney, Canadian Space Agency astronaut Joshua Kutryk and Roscosmos cosmonaut Sergey Teteryatnikov, NASA said. The update described the rocket as vertical at the pad ahead of the Thursday launch.

The report reflected launch preparations as of the source's publication time and did not state that liftoff had occurred.