NASA and its partners will discuss the upcoming crew rotation mission to the International Space Station during a pair of press conferences on Monday, August 3, from the agency’s Johnson Space Center in Houston.

Mission leadership will provide an overview of NASA’s SpaceX Crew-13 mission at 12 p.m. EDT. Next, crew members will discuss their training and mission preparations at 2 p.m. This is the last media availability for Crew-13 before traveling to the agency’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida for launch.

NASA will broadcast these events live. Learn where to watch online:

NASA Live

The Crew-13 mission will carry NASA astronauts Jessica Watkins and Luke Delaney, CSA (Canadian Space Agency) astronaut Joshua Kutryk and Roscosmos cosmonaut Sergey Teteryatnikov to the orbital laboratory. The crew will launch aboard a SpaceX Dragon spacecraft on the company’s Falcon 9 rocket from Space Launch Complex 40 at Cape Canaveral Space Force Station in Florida no earlier than mid-September.

International media attending in person should email NASA’s Johnson Newsroom at jsccommu@mail.nasa.gov by 5 p.m. on Tuesday, July 21. US media attending in person must respond by 5 pm on Thursday, July 30. Media joining virtually must respond by 10am on the day of the event. NASA’s media accreditation policy is available online.

Participants in the briefing are as follows (all times Eastern and subject to change based on real-time operations):

12 pm: Mission Overview Press Conference

• Joel Montalbano, deputy associate administrator, Human Spaceflight Mission Directorate, NASA Headquarters
• Dana Weigel, Low Earth Orbit Program Director, NASA Johnson
• Mathieu Caron, Director, Astronauts, Life Sciences and Space Medicine, CSA
• Julianna Scheiman, Director of NASA Science and Dragon Programs, SpaceX

2 p.m.: Crew-13 press conference

• Jessica Watkins, commander, NASA
• Luke Delaney, pilot, NASA
• Joshua Kutryk, Mission Specialist, CSA
• Sergey Teteryatnikov, mission specialist, Roscosmos

Following the press conference, crew members will be available for limited media interviews. All interview requests must be submitted by 5 pm on July 30 to the NASA Johnson newsroom at: jsccommu@mail.nasa.gov.

This will be the second flight to the space station for Watkins, who was selected as a NASA astronaut in 2017. Watkins grew up in Lafayette, Colorado, and earned a bachelor’s degree in geological and environmental sciences from Stanford University, as well as a doctorate in geology from the University of California, Los Angeles. As a geologist, she studied the Martian surface and was a member of the Curiosity rover science team at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Southern California. Watkins first launched to the space station as a crew member aboard NASA’s SpaceX Crew-4 mission, and spent a total of 170 days in space across the space station’s Expeditions 67/68 in 2022. She will be the first NASA astronaut to launch twice aboard a SpaceX Dragon spacecraft.

Selected as a 2021 NASA astronaut, Delaney earned a bachelor’s degree in mechanical engineering from the University of North Florida and a master’s degree in aerospace engineering from the Naval Postgraduate School. The Florida native is a distinguished naval aviator who participated in exercises throughout the Asia Pacific region and conducted missions in support of Operation Enduring Freedom. As a test pilot, Delaney evaluated aircraft systems under development and served as a test pilot instructor. He also worked as a research pilot at NASA Langley Research Center in Hampton, Virginia, where he supported aerial science missions. This is Delaney’s first space flight.

The Crew-13 mission is also Kutryk’s first space flight. Prior to his selection as a CSA astronaut in 2017, he served as a CF-18 fighter pilot, flying missions in support of Canada’s commitments to NATO, the UN and the North American Aerospace Defense Command. Originally from Fort Saskatchewan, Alberta, Kutryk also worked as an experimental and operational test pilot at the Aerospace Engineering Test Establishment in Cold Lake, Alberta. Kutryk earned a bachelor’s degree in mechanical engineering from the Royal Military College of Canada in Kingston, Ontario, and is a distinguished graduate of the United States Air Force Test Pilot School in Edwards, California. He has master’s degrees in space studies, flight test engineering, and defense studies.

This mission will be Teteryatnikov’s first trip to the orbital laboratory. He graduated from the Naval Academy in Saint Petersburg (Russia) in 2011 as an engineer specializing in ship power plant operations. Prior to his selection as a test cosmonaut, Teteryatnikov served in various naval engineering positions, including underwater craft and specialized engine room operations. He was selected to the Gagarin Research and Test Cosmonaut Training Center Cosmonaut Corps in 2021 and has served as a test cosmonaut since 2023.

For more information about the mission, visit:

https://www.nasa.gov/mission/nasas-spacex-crew-13

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