Crew-13

Crew-13 is the thirteenth operational rotation flight of SpaceX’s Crew Dragon to the Station under NASA’s Commercial Crew Program. Four astronauts will lift off from Pad 40 at Cape Canaveral aboard a Falcon 9 and dock to the forward port of the Harmony module roughly 28 hours later. They relieve the four who arrived on Crew-12 and stay through the spring of 2027, overlapping with Crew-14 for the standard week-long handover.

The crew capsule on this flight is a reuse — its third trip to orbit, the same vehicle that took Crew-9 up in 2024 and Crew-11 in early 2026. SpaceX refurbishes the heat shield and parachute stack between flights, and the cabin’s interior trim is replaced section by section so that no astronaut ever boards a spacecraft that smells of the previous crew.