{"id":632334,"date":"2026-09-30T17:56:12","date_gmt":"2026-09-30T17:56:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/632334\/"},"modified":"2026-09-30T17:56:12","modified_gmt":"2026-09-30T17:56:12","slug":"spacex-crew-13-astronaut-launch-live-updates-nasa-says-weather-60-go-for-oct-1-liftoff","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/632334\/","title":{"rendered":"SpaceX Crew-13 astronaut launch live updates: NASA says weather 60% ‘GO’ for Oct. 1 liftoff"},"content":{"rendered":"

SpaceX, NASA 1 day away from Crew-13 launch after delays<\/p>\n

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(Image credit: SpaceX)<\/p>\n

SpaceX<\/a> and NASA are T-1 day and counting until the launch of their SpaceX Crew-13 astronaut crew to the International Space Station. Liftoff is scheduled for 11:10 a.m. EDT (1510 GMT) on Thursday, Oct. 1, from Cape Canaveral Space Force Station in Florida.<\/p>\n

Check out our “What time is SpaceX’s Crew-13 astronaut launch guide<\/a>” if you’re looking for details on when and how to watch the launch live.<\/p>\n

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At 5 p.m. EDT (2100 GMT), NASA and SpaceX will hold a prelaunch press conference, which you’ll be able to watch here.<\/p>\n

NASA’s SpaceX Crew-13 Prelaunch News Conference (Sept. 30, 2026) – YouTube
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Crew-13 will launch NASA astronauts Jessica Watkins, Luke Delaney and crewmates Josh Kutryk ( of Canada) and Sergey Teteryatnikov (of Russia) on a six-month mission to the International Space Station<\/a>. They will join three core members of the station’s Expedition 75 crew, already aboard the station, as well as the four soon-to-depart meembers of NASA’s Crew-12 astronauts,<\/a> who will soon return to Earth on their own SpaceX Crew Dragon capsule.<\/p>\n

Weather trackers are forecasting a 60% chance of good conditions for Thursday’s launch, according to NASA<\/a>.<\/p>\n

The four Crew-13 astronauts successfully performed a dress rehearsal<\/a> for launch day on Tuesday (Sept. 29), setting the stage for Thursday’s liftoff.<\/p>\n

Space.com will provide live coverage of SpaceX’s Crew-13 launch, from liftoff to docking, on Oct. 1, with coverage coming in from our entire team, including Spaceflight Writer Josh Dinner<\/a>, who is at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center and Cape Canaveral Space Force Station in person. Be sure to tune in!<\/p>\n

\"Tariq<\/p>\n

\nTariq Malik\n<\/p>\n

Editor-in-Chief, Space.com<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"SpaceX, NASA 1 day away from Crew-13 launch after delays (Image credit: SpaceX) SpaceX and NASA are T-1…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":632335,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[85,46,141],"class_list":["post-632334","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-science","tag-il","tag-israel","tag-science"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/632334","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=632334"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/632334\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/632335"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=632334"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=632334"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=632334"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}