{"id":396648,"date":"2026-04-25T06:49:17","date_gmt":"2026-04-25T06:49:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/396648\/"},"modified":"2026-04-25T06:49:17","modified_gmt":"2026-04-25T06:49:17","slug":"nasa-prepares-for-launch-of-spacex-crew-13-mission","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/396648\/","title":{"rendered":"NASA prepares for launch of SpaceX Crew-13 mission"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">NASA and SpaceX are gearing up for the next crewed mission to the International Space Station.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">NASA announced the crew members for SpaceX\u2019s Crew-13 flight and released new photos of the team.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Crew-13 will include NASA astronauts Jessica Watkins and Luke Delaney, Canadian Space Agency astronaut Joshua Kutryk and Roscosmos cosmonaut Sergey Teteryatnikov.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Teams are preparing to launch the Crew-13 team in mid-September for a 4-month-long mission.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\"><a data-yga=\"{\" ylinkelement=\"\" href=\"https:\/\/www.wftv.com\/mobile-apps\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"elm:link;elmt:article_link;slk:Click here;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">Click here<\/a> to download our free news, weather and smart TV apps. And <a data-yga=\"{\" ylinkelement=\"\" href=\"https:\/\/www.wftv.com\/video\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"elm:link;elmt:article_link;slk:click here;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">click here<\/a> to stream Channel 9 Eyewitness News live.<\/p>\n<p><a data-ylk=\"ct:story;elm:img;itc:0;\" class=\"stretched-box\" href=\"https:\/\/wftvapps.com\/\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\" target=\"_blank\"><img alt=\"\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"537\" height=\"108\" decoding=\"async\" data-nimg=\"1\" class=\"rounded-lg\" style=\"color:transparent\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/beda08358d6db9816e7b0d066edd22cf.jpeg\"\/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"NASA and SpaceX are gearing up for the next crewed mission to the International Space Station. NASA announced&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":396649,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[23],"tags":[97167,13559,204900,204901,3323,61861,111,139,69,147,392,1503],"class_list":["post-396648","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-space","tag-canadian-space-agency","tag-international-space-station","tag-jessica-watkins","tag-luke-delaney","tag-nasa","tag-nasa-astronauts","tag-new-zealand","tag-newzealand","tag-nz","tag-science","tag-space","tag-spacex"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/396648","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=396648"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/396648\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/396649"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=396648"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=396648"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=396648"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}