NASA announced on September 24, 2026 the assignments for SpaceX Crew-14, a long-duration science mission to the International Space Station targeted to launch no earlier than spring 2027. NASA astronauts Kayla Barron and Chris Birch were named spacecraft commander and pilot, with JAXA astronaut Makoto Suwa and Roscosmos cosmonaut Arutyun Kiviryan as mission specialists. After docking, the crew would join Expedition 75/76, according to the agency.

NASA said the mission would be the 14th commercial crew rotation with SpaceX under its Low Earth Orbit Program, with the crew conducting scientific investigations and technology demonstrations intended to prepare for exploration of the Moon and Mars and benefit people on Earth. For Barron, it would be a second station flight after 177 days in space across Expeditions 66/67; Birch, Suwa and Kiviryan were described as facing their first spaceflights. Suwa was selected as a JAXA astronaut candidate in 2023, while Kiviryan joined the Gagarin cosmonaut corps in 2021 and has served as a test cosmonaut since 2023.