OAN Staff Addie Davis
3:30 PM – Friday, October 2, 2026
Crew-13 are onboard the International Space Station (ISS) after their nearly 8-hour-long journey, marking “the fastest launch-to-docking” of a U.S. flight to the orbiting laboratory.
National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) astronauts Jessica Watkins and Luke Delaney, Canadian Space Agency (CSA) astronaut Joshua Kutryk and Russian Federal Space Agency (Roscosmos) cosmonaut Sergey Teteryatnikov docked at the station at 7:05 p.m. EDT, according to NASA.
“At 7-hours and 55-minutes, this marked the fastest launch-to-docking of a U.S. spacecraft in the history of the International Space Station,” NASA stated on Thursday.
Following standard procedures, the crew entered the ISS after the hatch of SpaceX’s Dragon spacecraft opened at 9:19 p.m.
SpaceX’s Falcon 9 rocket and Dragon crew spacecraft took off from Cape Canaveral, Florida, on Thursday, with the rocket’s first stage successfully separating and landing back on Earth.
Crew-13, who brought the number of people living onboard the ISS to 11, are set to take over the mission responsibilities on Sunday from the departing Crew-12 crew members.
“Welcome aboard!” NASA posted to social media on Thursday. “After nearly eight hours in flight, Crew-13 arrived at the [ISS], where they will spend the next several months conducting experiments on science and tech to benefit life on Earth and in space.”
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