NASA will hold two public news conferences on August 3 for the SpaceX Crew-13 rotation mission to the International Space Station. A mission overview is scheduled for noon Eastern, followed by the crew briefing at 2 p.m. from Johnson Space Center in Houston.\n\nThe flight will carry NASA astronauts Jessica Watkins and Luke Delaney, Canadian Space Agency astronaut Joshua Kutryk and Roscosmos cosmonaut Sergey Teteryatnikov aboard a SpaceX Dragon spacecraft. Watkins will command the mission; the other three crew members are preparing for their first spaceflight.\n\nNASA lists launch from Cape Canaveral Space Force Station in Florida for no earlier than mid-September. That language is a planning target rather than a guaranteed launch date, and the schedule remains subject to spacecraft, rocket, range and mission-readiness reviews.\n\nThe briefings are the crew's final planned media availability before travel to Kennedy Space Center. NASA says it will stream both events through its public live channel. Crew-13 is the thirteenth operational SpaceX crew-rotation mission under NASA's Commercial Crew Program and the fourteenth crewed Dragon flight in the program when the Demo-2 test flight is included.\n\nSource: NASA mission briefing advisory — https://www.nasa.gov/news-release/nasa-sets-briefings-for-spacex-crew-13-mission-to-space-station/\n\nSource: NASA Crew-13 mission page — https://www.nasa.gov/mission/nasas-spacex-crew-13/
TechnologyJuly 22, 2026
NASA schedules final briefings for SpaceX Crew-13 mission
Mission leaders and four crew members will hold public briefings on August 3 ahead of a launch to the International Space Station targeted for no earlier than mid-September.
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