Crew · Sunday, September 27, 2026
NASA set Crew-13’s Kennedy arrival for Saturday afternoon
The File desk · Sep 27, 2026, 10:04 AM UTC
Status
Confirmed (NASA Commercial Crew blog, Sept. 25, 2026)
NASA said Crew-13 — Jessica Watkins, Luke Delaney, the Canadian Space Agency’s Joshua Kutryk, and Roscosmos’s Sergey Teteryatnikov — was set to arrive at Kennedy Space Center about 1 p.m. Eastern on Saturday, Sept. 26, to begin final preflight work for the mission to the International Space Station. The arrival plan was posted Friday, Sept. 25. This desk does not have a later NASA post confirming the crew was on the ground.
On Friday, Sept. 25, 2026, NASA said the SpaceX Crew-13 astronauts were set to arrive at Kennedy Space Center about 1 p.m. Eastern on Saturday, Sept. 26.
The crew is Jessica Watkins, Luke Delaney, Joshua Kutryk of the Canadian Space Agency, and Sergey Teteryatnikov of Roscosmos.
NASA said the arrival starts final preflight work for the mission to the International Space Station.
The Friday post is a plan. This desk does not have a later NASA post that says the crew had landed.
What is still unknown or disputed
- Whether the Saturday arrival happened on the posted clock. No later NASA confirmation was opened.
- The launch date after arrival is not the subject of the Friday post.
Primary sources
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Source 1
NASA’s SpaceX Crew-13 Set for Saturday Arrival at NASA Kennedy
NASA Commercial Crew · September 25, 2026
The page description sets arrival at Kennedy Space Center for about 1 p.m. Eastern on Saturday. The page’s publish time is 2026-09-25T20:35:55Z.
https://www.nasa.gov/blogs/commercialcrew/2026/09/25/nasas-spacex-crew-13-set-for-saturday-arrival-at-nasa-kennedy/