The four crew members are NASA astronauts Jessica Watkins and Luke Delaney, Canadian Space Agency astronaut Joshua Kutryk, and Roscosmos cosmonaut Sergey Teteryatnikov, according to NASA. This flight is the 13th crew rotation with SpaceX to the ISS as part of NASA's Commercial Crew Program.
After arriving at the ISS, Crew-13 will become members of Expedition 75. The crew will conduct scientific investigations and technology demonstrations to help prepare humans for future exploration missions to the Moon and Mars, and benefit people on Earth, NASA said.
This will be the second flight to the ISS for Jessica Watkins, who first launched on Crew-4 in 2022 and spent 170 days in space. She will be the first NASA astronaut to launch aboard a SpaceX Dragon spacecraft twice. Luke Delaney, Joshua Kutryk, and Sergey Teteryatnikov are on their first spaceflight.
NASA is advancing the launch date from November to mid-September to help increase the frequency of U.S. crew rotation missions to the ISS. The exact launch date has not been announced, and the specific scientific investigations and technology demonstrations for the mission have not been detailed.