NASA's SpaceX Crew-13 launched Thursday, Oct. 1, 2026, on the fastest launch-to-docking flight by a U.S. spacecraft in International Space Station history, a roughly 7-hour, 50-minute trip delivering four crew members and a biomedical research agenda that includes growing human stem cell-derived tissues for personalized medicine, disease modeling and drug testing.
A verified preview of Monday's 3 p.m. EDT NASA and Boeing briefing on Starliner: what is confirmed, what happened on the 2024 Crew Flight Test, and why a second independent US crew vehicle matters for the space station and beyond.
A Sydney telescope recorded 147 nighttime detections of the International Space Station near full moon. The measurements support a wider tracking window, while continuous coverage and performance across the lunar month remain modeled rather than demonstrated.
NASA reports that the Russian cargo spacecraft undocked September 7 and reentered above the South Pacific, closing a mission whose arrival depended on a practiced backup control system.