NASA Crew-13 Launches Four-Person Space Station Mission
The Oct. 1 SpaceX launch carried crew members from NASA, Canada and Russia toward the International Space Station for a long-duration research mission.
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NASA said a SpaceX Falcon 9 launched Crew-13 from Cape Canaveral at 11:10 a.m. EDT on Oct. 1, carrying four crew members toward the International Space Station.
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A SpaceX Falcon 9 carrying the Crew Dragon spacecraft lifted off from Space Launch Complex 40 at Cape Canaveral Space Force Station in Florida, according to NASA’s Oct. 1 launch announcement. The four-person crew comprises NASA astronauts Jessica Watkins and Luke Delaney, Canadian Space Agency astronaut Joshua Kutryk, and Roscosmos cosmonaut Sergey Teteryatnikov.
NASA said the crew would join Expedition 75 aboard the International Space Station. The agency listed research involving stem-cell-derived tissues, crop production and crew health among the work planned for the mission. Those are proposed investigations, not findings established by the launch.
The mission also continues the station’s multinational crew rotation. NASA’s release documents the launch and planned mission; it does not by itself establish the outcome of the experiments or the crew’s present status.