A SpaceX Dragon spacecraft was orbiting Earth en route to the International Space Station for a docking on Thursday, NASA reported on October 14, 2026. Flight engineers Anil Menon of NASA and Joshua Kutryk of the Canadian Space Agency were assigned to monitor the automated approach and rendezvous. Menon and Kutryk joined NASA flight engineers Jessica Watkins and Luke Delaney on Wednesday afternoon to discuss cargo operations with mission controllers after Dragon's arrival. NASA+ coverage was set to begin at 9:15 a.m. EDT ahead of a docking to the Harmony module's space-facing port scheduled for 11 a.m.

Dragon was carrying over 6,300 pounds of science, supplies and roll-out solar arrays, including hardware for research on artificial retinas and growing heart tissue in weightlessness. The solar arrays, stowed in the unpressurized trunk, were to be installed and activated on the station's truss for power generation during upcoming spacewalks. The four astronauts also took part in eye exams in Harmony, with ground doctors observing their retina, lens and cornea in real time.

Menon moved student-controlled Earth observation hardware from the Destiny to the Columbus laboratory module, and Kutryk cleaned the inside of an EXPRESS rack in Columbus. Delaney and Watkins prepared a spacesuit and its sensitive components in the Quest airlock for return to Earth and stowed recharged lithium-ion batteries. Cosmonauts Pyotr Dubrov and Anna Kikina tested an exoskeleton suit to remotely control robots in the Nauka module as part of the Teledroid experiment. Sergey Teteryatnikov updated software on a laptop controlling the European robotic arm in the Zvezda service module.