Liftoff! NASA’s SpaceX Crew-13 Begins Journey to International Space Station
SpaceX’s Falcon 9 rocket and Dragon crew spacecraft rocketed into the blue Florida sky, as NASA astronauts Jessica Watkins and Luke Delaney, CSA (Canadian Space Agency) astronaut Joshua Kutryk, and Roscosmos cosmonaut Sergey Teteryatnikov began their approximately 7-hour, 50-minute journey to the International Space Station. Liftoff occurred at 11:10 a.m. EDT from Space Launch Complex […] The…
NASA's SpaceX Crew-13 mission blasted off from Cape Canaveral Space Force Station in Florida on Thursday, October 1, 2026, at 11:10 a.m. EDT. The mission, aboard a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket carrying a Dragon spacecraft, carried four astronauts: NASA's Jessica Watkins and Luke Delaney, CSA astronaut Joshua Kutryk, and Roscosmos cosmonaut Sergey Teteryatnikov. The four astronauts embarked on a journey of approximately 7 hours and 50 minutes to reach the International Space Station (ISS).
The Falcon 9 rocket's first stage is expected to separate from the second stage and attempt a landing at SpaceX's Landing Zone 40 at Cape Canaveral Space Force Station. At the time of launch, the International Space Station was orbiting Earth at an impressive 17,500 miles per hour (28,200 kilometers per hour), approximately 263 miles above Cuba. The space station passed directly over NASA's Kennedy Space Center about 1 minute and 37 seconds after liftoff.
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