A NASA report dated Sept. 26, 2026, said the four members of SpaceX Crew-13 were traveling to NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida to prepare for a launch to the International Space Station. NASA astronauts Jessica Watkins, the commander, and Luke Delaney, the pilot, were joined by CSA (Canadian Space Agency) astronaut Joshua Kutryk and Roscosmos cosmonaut Sergey Teteryatnikov, both mission specialists.

The crew took off in T-38 aircraft that morning from Ellington Field near NASA's Johnson Space Center in Houston and were expected to land around 1 p.m. EDT at Kennedy's Shuttle Landing Facility. On arrival, they were to be greeted on the runway by representatives from Kennedy and NASA's Low Earth Orbit Program before speaking briefly with on-site media, with coverage planned on Kennedy's YouTube channel. The crew were then to move to the Astronaut Crew Quarters in the Neil A. Armstrong Operations and Checkout Building to continue quarantine and prelaunch preparations.

According to the report, Crew-13 was scheduled to lift off aboard a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket no earlier than 11:10 a.m. on Thursday, Oct. 1, from Space Launch Complex 40 at Cape Canaveral Space Force Station in Florida.