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Next Stop: Space Launch Complex 40

NASA’s SpaceX Crew-13 crew members wave to family and friends as they prepare to depart the Neil A. Armstrong Operations and Checkout Building at the agency’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida for nearby Space Launch Complex 40 at Cape Canaveral Space Force Station for launch of Crew-13 on Thursday, Oct. 1, 2026.
NASA/Joel Kowsky

NASA’s SpaceX Crew-13 crew, including astronauts Jessica Watkins and Luke Delaney, CSA (Canadian Space Agency) astronaut Joshua Kutryk, and Roscosmos cosmonaut Sergey Teteryatnikov, departed Kennedy Space Center’s Neil A. Armstrong Operations and Checkout Building and are now on their way across the Florida spaceport to Space Launch Complex 40 at Cape Canaveral Space Force Station.

After waving to family, friends, and the support team members gathered to see them off, the crew climbed into customized electric vehicles for the 20-minute ride through the Florida spaceport.

The vehicles are traveling in the middle of a convoy that includes support team members and security personnel. At the launch site, the SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket and Dragon spacecraft stand ready for the crew’s arrival.