Ahead of NASA's SpaceX Crew-13 mission, a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket and Dragon spacecraft were vertical at the launch pad of Space Launch Complex 40 at Cape Canaveral Space Force Station in Florida, according to a Sept. 27, 2026, photo released by NASA.

The crew consists of NASA astronauts Jessica Watkins and Luke Delaney, Canadian Space Agency astronaut Joshua Kutryk and Roscosmos cosmonaut Sergey Teteryatnikov. They were scheduled to launch to the International Space Station on Oct. 1 for a long-duration science mission, NASA said in the image article published Sept. 29. Image credit goes to SpaceX.