NASA Sets Crew-13 Launch, Docking Coverage
NASA will provide live coverage of prelaunch, launch, and docking activities for the agency's SpaceX Crew-13 mission to the International Space Station. The coverage will stream through a variety of platforms, with viewing details available at https://www.nasa.gov/live. Crew-13 is scheduled to launch at 11:10 a.m. EDT on Thursday, Oct. 1, from Space Launch Complex 40 at Cape Canaveral Space Force Station in Florida, with docking planned for about 7 p.m. The SpaceX Dragon spacecraft will carry NASA astronauts Jessica Watkins and Luke Delaney, CSA astronaut Joshua Kutryk, and Roscosmos cosmonaut Sergey Teteryatnikov to the station for a long-duration science mission. In-person events are open only to previously credentialed media, and call details are available to media on request.
Coverage on Wednesday, Sept. 30 begins at 5 p.m. Eastern with a prelaunch news conference. Participants are Dr. Lori Glaze, associate administrator, Human Spaceflight Mission Directorate, NASA Headquarters; Dana Weigel, manager, Low Earth Orbit Program, NASA's Johnson Space Center in Houston; Mathieu Caron, director, Astronauts, Life Sciences, and Space Medicine, CSA; William Gerstenmaier, vice president, Build and Flight Reliability, SpaceX; and Arlena Moses, launch weather officer, Cape Canaveral Space Force Station's 45th Weather Squadron. Media may ask questions in person and via phone, and limited auditorium space will be available for in-person participation. For the dial-in number and passcode, media must contact the NASA Kennedy newsroom no later than one hour before the conference at ksc-newsroom@mail.nasa.gov.
On Thursday, Oct. 1, launch coverage begins at 9:20 a.m. ahead of the 11:10 a.m. launch. After launch coverage concludes, NASA will provide audio-only discussions between Crew-13, the space station, and flight controllers during Dragon's transit to the orbital complex. A postlaunch news conference is scheduled for 12:45 p.m. with NASA Administrator Jared Isaacman; Dr. Lori Glaze; Dana Weigel; Mathieu Caron; and Julianna Scheiman, director, NASA Science and Dragon Programs, SpaceX. Media may ask questions in person and via phone; limited auditorium space is available, and dial-in details are available by contacting the NASA Kennedy newsroom no later than one hour before the conference.
NASA's live Crew-13 coverage returns for rendezvous and docking, streaming on a variety of platforms. The planned 7-hour, 50-minute trip from launch to docking on Oct. 1 will be the fastest by a U.S. spacecraft in space station history. Arrival coverage is scheduled for 5:20 p.m. Eastern. All times are Eastern and subject to change based on real-time operations.