Crew-13 Rocket and Spacecraft at Launch Pad

NASA shared an image article on Sept. 29, 2026, showing a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket and Dragon spacecraft vertical at the launch pad of Space Launch Complex 40 at Cape Canaveral Space Force Station in Florida in a Sept. 27, 2026, photo, ahead of the agency's SpaceX Crew-13 mission launch. NASA astronauts Jessica Watkins and Luke Delaney, CSA astronaut Joshua Kutryk, and Roscosmos cosmonaut Sergey Teteryatnikov are scheduled to launch to the International Space Station for a long-duration science mission on Oct. 1. Image credit: SpaceX.