SCHEDULED75% CONFIDENCELaunch Library 2 lists this as the no-earlier-than launch time; launches slip.[1]
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- Oct 1, 202675% CONFIDENCEfrom the source
Falcon 9 launches Crew-13
SpaceX Crew-13 is the thirteenth crewed operational flight of a Crew Dragon spacecraft to the International Space Station as part of NASA's Commercial Crew Program. Lifts off from Space Launch Complex 40, Cape Canaveral SFS, FL, USA to Low Earth Orbit. The booster is due to land at Landing Zone 40.
- Crew-13 is set to launch on a Falcon 9 Block 5 at 2026-10-01T15:10:06Z, with the launch window opening and closing at the same instant and the T-0 "accurate to the second"[1]
- The launch status is "To Be Confirmed" - "Awaiting official confirmation - current date is known with some certainty" - as of the record's last update on 2026-09-18T15:35:11Z[1]
- The mission is described as "the thirteenth crewed operational flight of a Crew Dragon spacecraft to the International Space Station as part of NASA's Commercial Crew Program", classed as Human Exploration to Low Earth Orbit[1]
- The four crew, listed as both launch and landing crew, are Jessica Watkins (Spacecraft Commander, NASA), Joshua Kutryk (Flight Engineer, Canadian Space Agency), Luke Delaney (Pilot, NASA) and Sergey Teteryatnikov (Flight Engineer, ROSCOSMOS)[1]
- It flies from Space Launch Complex 40 at Cape Canaveral SFS, Florida, operated by SpaceX, the pad's 402nd launch attempt and the 7410th orbital launch attempt overall[1]
- The first stage is booster B1101 on its 3rd flight, reused, having last flown Crew-12 on 2026-02-13; it "will land back at the launch site" at Landing Zone 40, a Return to Launch Site landing with a downrange distance of 0.3[1]
- Landing Zone 40 is a landing pad at SLC-40 "Built as an replacement for LZ-1 & LZ-2" and has 6 attempted and 6 successful landings to date[1]
- The spacecraft is Crew Dragon Grace (C213), "first used for Axiom-4", in the four-seat Crew Dragon 2 configuration, bound for the ISS; it "will splash down in the Pacific Ocean" under parachutes[1]
- The date moved repeatedly: schedule updates run from "NET mid-September" (2026-04-23) to "NET September 12" (2026-08-03), then "Launch delayed due to Dragon propulsion system leak" on 2026-08-30 citing a NASA blog post of 2026-08-29, then "NET early October" (2026-09-16) and finally "NET October 1, TBC." (2026-09-18, sourced to NASA ISS ephemeris data)[1]
- No webcast was live and the record carries no info URLs, video URLs, timeline or mission patches, though it links a Flight Club simulation for the launch[1]
- Context given for the hardware: Falcon 9 Block 5 had flown 633 times with 632 successes since its 2018-05-11 maiden flight, at a listed launch cost of $52,000,000, and the Crew Dragon 2 configuration 22 launches, all successful, since 2019-03-02[1]
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- [1]75%ll.thespacedevs.com/2.3.0/launches/18441371-8b2e-457c-afb5-1ec1b11ab630ll.thespacedevs.com· Posted Sep 20, 2026· Starts Oct 1, 2026 ✓· 100% of score
Launch Library 2 lists this as the no-earlier-than launch time; launches slip.
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