SpaceX Crew-13 makes fastest-ever Dragon trip to the ISS

A Falcon 9 rocket lifted off from Cape Canaveral Space Force Station in Florida at 11:10 a.m. EDT on 1 October 2026, carrying the Crew Dragon capsule Grace and the Crew-13 team to the International Space Station. The four-person crew — NASA commander Jessica Watkins, NASA pilot Luke Delaney, Canadian Space Agency astronaut Joshua Kutryk and Roscosmos cosmonaut Sergey Teteryatnikov — reached the orbiting lab in SpaceX's fastest Dragon trip to date, with docking at 7:05 p.m. EDT, roughly eight hours after launch. Hatches opened at about 9:18 p.m. EDT and the crew floated into the station's Harmony module at 9:43 p.m. EDT, joining the Expedition 74 residents. The quartet is scheduled to spend about six months aboard conducting around 200 experiments on microgravity biology, materials science and climate observation, before returning to Earth around February or March 2027. The mission marks the 13th operational Crew Dragon rotation for NASA's Commercial Crew Program and the first to use the newly refurbished Grace capsule on an accelerated rendezvous profile.