Crew-13

Overview

Destination: Low Earth Orbit
Mission: Human Exploration

Low Earth Orbit Space Launch Complex 40 Cape Canaveral SFS, FL, USA
B1101 - Landing Zone 40

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.

Telemetry

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Updates

Cosmic_Penguin • Sept. 22, 2026, 10:08 p.m.

GO for launch on NET October 1.


Cosmic_Penguin • Sept. 18, 2026, 3:35 p.m.

NET October 1, TBC.


Cosmic_Penguin • Sept. 16, 2026, 2:20 p.m.

NET early October.


Cosmic_Penguin • Aug. 30, 2026, 1:29 a.m.

Launch delayed due to Dragon propulsion system leak.


Cosmic_Penguin • Aug. 3, 2026, 4:17 p.m.

Updated launch time.


Falcon 9

Family:
Configuration: Block 5

Falcon 9 is a two-stage rocket designed and manufactured by SpaceX for the reliable and safe transport of satellites and the Dragon spacecraft into orbit. The Block 5 variant is the fifth major interval aimed at improving upon the ability for rapid reusability.

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Specifications
  • Stages
    2
  • Length
    70.0 m
  • Diameter
    3.65 m
  • Fairing Diameter
    5.2 m
  • Launch Mass
    549.0 T
  • Thrust
    7607.0 kN
Family
  • Name
    Falcon 9
  • Family
    ―
  • Variant
    Block 5
  • Alias
    ―
  • Full Name
    Falcon 9 Block 5
Payload Capacity
  • Launch Cost
    $52000000
  • Low Earth Orbit
    22800.0 kg
  • Geostationary Transfer Orbit
    8300.0 kg
  • Direct Geostationary
    ―
  • Sun-Synchronous Capacity
    ―

Booster Info


B1101

Status: Active


Type: Core
Flight Proven: Yes
First Flight: January 4, 2026
Last Flight: February 13, 2026
Flights: 2
Landings Attempted: 2
Landings Successful: 2
Previous B1101 Flights

Landing Information

The Falcon 9 first stage B1101 will land back at the launch site at Landing Zone 40 after its 3rd flight.

Landing Attempt Confirmed

Crew Dragon Grace


Active Human Rated Crew On-board: 4 Crew Capacity: 4 Payload Capacity: 6000 kg
Destination: International Space Station
Serial Number: C213

Crew Dragon spacecraft first used for Axiom-4.

Crew Dragon 2 Details

Crew


Jessica Watkins

Spacecraft Commander - configurations.Country.None - ( NASA )

Status: Active

Date of Birth: May 14, 1988
Age: 38

Joshua Kutryk

Flight Engineer - configurations.Country.None - ( CSA )

Status: Active

Date of Birth: March 21, 1982
Age: 44

Luke Delaney

Pilot - configurations.Country.None - ( NASA )

Status: Active

Date of Birth: Jan. 1, 1979
Age: 47

Sergey Teteryatnikov

Flight Engineer - configurations.Country.None - ( RFSA )

Status: Active

Date of Birth: Dec. 19, 1988
Age: 37

SpaceX

SpaceX

(SpX)

CEO: Elon Musk Founded: 2002 Successes: 716 Failures: 15 Pending: 128

Agency Type:

Space Exploration Technologies Corp., known as SpaceX, is an American aerospace manufacturer and space transport services company headquartered in Hawthorne, California. It was founded in 2002 by entrepreneur Elon Musk with the goal of reducing space transportation costs and enabling the colonization of Mars. SpaceX operates from many pads, on the East Coast of the US they operate from SLC-40 at Cape Canaveral Space Force Station and historic LC-39A at Kennedy Space Center. They also operate from SLC-4E at Vandenberg Space Force Base, California, usually for polar launches. Another launch site is being developed at Boca Chica, Texas.

INFO WIKI
NASA

NASA Sets Briefings for SpaceX Crew-13 Mission to Space Station

NASA and its partners will discuss the upcoming crew rotation mission to the International Space Station during a pair of news conferences on Monday, Aug. 3, from the agency’s Johnson Space Center in Houston. Mission leadership will provid…

NASA

NASA Invites Media to Roman Space Telescope, Crew-13 Launches

Media accreditation now is open for the launch of NASA’s Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope and the agency’s SpaceX Crew-13 missions, both targeting launch in the coming months. The Roman telescope is slated to launch no earlier than 7:20 a…

NASA

NASA Shares SpaceX Crew-13 Assignments for Space Station Mission

As part of NASA’s SpaceX Crew-13 mission, four crew members from three space agencies will launch no earlier than mid-September to the International Space Station for a long-duration science expedition. NASA astronauts Jessica Watkins and …

Arstechnica

NASA will pay Boeing more than twice as much as SpaceX for crew seats

"I don't know whether the business case closes today."

Teslarati

NASA awards SpaceX five more Dragon astronaut launch contracts

NASA has finalized plans to purchase another five Crew Dragon launches from SpaceX, securing its astronauts access to the International Space Station...

Cape Canaveral SFS, FL, USA

Space Launch Complex 40


Falcon 9
Success
9 hours, 20 minutes ago
USSF-385
Space Launch Complex 4E - Vandenberg SFB, CA, USA

A classified mission for the United States Space Force. It is possibly a batch of classified LEO satellites based on SpaceX’s Starshield satellite bu…


Electron
Success
22 hours, 41 minutes ago
Owlright, Owlright, Owlright (StriX Launch 13)
Rocket Lab Launch Complex 1B - Rocket Lab Launch Complex 1, Mahia Peninsula, New Zealand

Synthetic aperture radar satellite for Japanese Earth imaging company Synspective.


Long March 6A
Success
2 days, 14 hours ago
Yaogan 40 Group 04
Launch Complex 9A - Taiyuan Satellite Launch Center, People's Republic of China

3 Chinese reconnaissance satellites of unknown purposes, officially reported as for "Electromagnetic environment probing".


Long March 8A
Success
3 days, 9 hours ago
SatNet LEO Group 26
Commercial LC-1 - Wenchang Space Launch Site, People's Republic of China

A batch of 9 Low Earth Orbit communication satellites for the Chinese state owned SatNet constellation operated by the China Satellite Network Group.…


Kinetica 1
Success
6 days, 19 hours ago
9 satellites
Launch Area 130 - Jiuquan Satellite Launch Center, People's Republic of China

Share-ride of 9 commercial Earth observation and technology demonstration satellites to SSO, details TBD.


Falcon 9
Success
6 days, 21 hours ago
Starlink Group 15-27
Space Launch Complex 4E - Vandenberg SFB, CA, USA

A batch of 27 satellites for the Starlink mega-constellation - SpaceX's project for space-based Internet communication system.


Long March 2D
Success
1 week ago
PIESAT-2 13-16
Launch Complex 9 - Taiyuan Satellite Launch Center, People's Republic of China

4 X-band synthetic-aperture radar Earth observation satellites for the Chinese Earth observation satellite company PIESAT.


Electron
Success
1 week ago
Owl By The Dozen (StriX Launch 12)
Rocket Lab Launch Complex 1B - Rocket Lab Launch Complex 1, Mahia Peninsula, New Zealand

Synthetic aperture radar satellite for Japanese Earth imaging company Synspective.


Soyuz 2.1b/Fregat-M
Success
1 week, 2 days ago
Glonass-K1 No. 20 (?)
43/3 (43L) - Plesetsk Cosmodrome, Russian Federation

Note: Satellite serial number and Cosmos designation not confirmed. Glonass-K are the third generation of satellite design for GLONASS satellite n…


Kuaizhou 11
Success
1 week, 2 days ago
SpaceTY-51 & 52
Launch Area 95A - Jiuquan Satellite Launch Center, People's Republic of China

2 Earth observation radar satellites built by the Chinese satellite manufacturer SpaceTY.