The four astronauts of SpaceX’s Crew-13 mission successfully docked with the International Space Station on October 1, 2026, achieving a milestone for American spaceflight. The Dragon spacecraft linked up with the orbiting laboratory’s Harmony module forward port at 7:05 p.m. EDT, while the two spacecraft flew 263 miles above the northeastern Pacific Ocean. This arrival occurred just 7 hours and 55 minutes after the mission lifted off from Florida’s Space Coast on a Falcon 9 rocket. The rapid flight marked the fastest-ever trip to the space station by an American spacecraft, clipping previous timelines by roughly five hours. The international crew features NASA astronauts Jessica Watkins and Luke Delaney, Canadian Space Agency astronaut Joshua Kutryk, and Roscosmos cosmonaut Sergey Teteryatnikov. The four spaceflyers will spend the next six months living and working aboard the orbital outpost as part of a long-duration science mission, relieving the outgoing crew members of the previous rotation.
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