NASA reports Crew-13 has entered the International Space Station
NASA’s written updates trace Dragon’s docking and the crew’s entry, separating planned milestones from reported completion.
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Source event: 2026-10-02T01:19:00Z. Published: 2026-10-02T16:36:29.067Z. Updated: 2026-10-02T16:36:29.067Z.
What happened
Primary-source statement · NASA reports that four Crew-13 members entered the International Space Station on October 1 after their Dragon spacecraft docked earlier that evening. Its mission updates identify NASA astronauts Jessica Watkins and Luke Delaney, Canadian Space Agency astronaut Joshua Kutryk, and Roscosmos cosmonaut Sergey Teteryatnikov. The agency gives docking at the Harmony module’s forward port as 7:05 p.m. Eastern and hatch opening as 9:19 p.m. Eastern. These times describe separate steps in NASA’s arrival account. [NASA] [NASA]
Why it matters
Primary-source statement · The agency’s first docking update said leak checks and pressurization would precede a hatch opening planned for about 8:45 p.m. Its later entry report gives the completed opening time and says the arrivals joined seven Expedition 75 members already aboard. Reading the updates together distinguishes an earlier operational plan from NASA’s subsequent account of what happened. The later report establishes what NASA announced about station entry; it does not explain the difference between the planned and reported hatch-opening times. [NASA] [NASA]
What remains unknown
Evidence limits · NASA describes the flight’s seven-hour, 55-minute launch-to-docking interval as a U.S. station-flight record. This briefing has not independently established that historical comparison or inspected flight telemetry. Both linked reports originate with NASA. They supply the mission operator’s arrival chronology, rather than two independent confirmations. Neither arrival report supplies completed research results, and this note makes no claim about the mission’s eventual scientific outcomes. [NASA] [NASA]
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7:05 P.M. EASTERN. NASA reports docking at Harmony’s forward port.
8:45 P.M. EASTERN. Earlier planned hatch-opening time.
9:19 P.M. EASTERN. NASA’s later reported completed hatch opening.
Evidence limit. Planned and completed times differ. These operator reports do not independently establish a flight record or research results.
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2026-10-02T16:36:29.067Z · First ICU briefing from NASA’s written docking and station-entry reports.
NASA reports Crew-13 has entered the International Space Station
NASA’s written updates trace Dragon’s docking and the crew’s entry, separating planned milestones from reported completion.
What happened
NASA reports that four Crew-13 members entered the International Space Station on October 1 after their Dragon spacecraft docked earlier that evening. Its mission updates identify NASA astronauts Jessica Watkins and Luke Delaney, Canadian Space Agency astronaut Joshua Kutryk, and Roscosmos cosmonaut Sergey Teteryatnikov. The agency gives docking at the Harmony module’s forward port as 7:05 p.m. Eastern and hatch opening as 9:19 p.m. Eastern. These times describe separate steps in NASA’s arrival account. [NASA] [NASA]
Why it matters
The agency’s first docking update said leak checks and pressurization would precede a hatch opening planned for about 8:45 p.m. Its later entry report gives the completed opening time and says the arrivals joined seven Expedition 75 members already aboard. Reading the updates together distinguishes an earlier operational plan from NASA’s subsequent account of what happened. The later report establishes what NASA announced about station entry; it does not explain the difference between the planned and reported hatch-opening times. [NASA] [NASA]
What remains unknown
NASA describes the flight’s seven-hour, 55-minute launch-to-docking interval as a U.S. station-flight record. This briefing has not independently established that historical comparison or inspected flight telemetry. Both linked reports originate with NASA. They supply the mission operator’s arrival chronology, rather than two independent confirmations. Neither arrival report supplies completed research results, and this note makes no claim about the mission’s eventual scientific outcomes. [NASA] [NASA]
Original sources
NASA reports Dragon docking · Issuer: NASA · 2026-10-01
NASA reports Crew-13 station entry · Issuer: NASA · 2026-10-01
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