In a report published Aug. 3, 2026, NASA said Expedition 75 crew members aboard the International Space Station were preparing for a spacewalk scheduled to begin at 8:35 a.m. EDT on Thursday, with live coverage planned from 7 a.m. NASA said station commander Jessica Meir and flight engineer Anil Menon, both from NASA, reviewed procedures and configured tools for building a platform on which a roll-out solar array was to be installed later that year. Jack Hathaway of NASA and Sophie Adenot of ESA joined the reviews and practiced installing SAFER emergency jetpacks.

NASA also described health and exercise research that day. Hathaway tested rope pulling and resistive exercises on the new European Enhanced Exploration Exercise Device, and Adenot tried the EasyMotion-2 workout suit during a treadmill session. Roscosmos flight engineers Pyotr Dubrov and Anna Kikina took turns wearing arm, wrist and finger cuffs to measure blood pressure, then took a computerized hearing test.

At a news conference from Johnson Space Center that day, the four SpaceX Crew-13 members introduced themselves. Their mission was planned to launch no earlier than Sept. 12 aboard a Dragon spacecraft. Commander Jessica Watkins of NASA was to lead Pilot Luke Delaney of NASA and Mission Specialists Joshua Kutryk of CSA and Sergey Teteryatnikov of Roscosmos.