CREW-13 PRE-LAUNCH NEWS CONF, Sept 30, 2026, KSC, 6:00 pm ET

Update, September 30, 2:10 pm ET:  NASA is delaying the news conference one hour, to 6:00 pm ET, “to accommodate the completion of prelaunch readiness meetings.”

Update, September 30:  This afternoon’s news conference will be on NASA’s YouTube channel.

Update, September 29:  NASA has changed the time to 5:00 pm ET.  Participants are:

• Dr. Lori Glaze, associate administrator, Human Spaceflight Mission Directorate, NASA Headquarters
• Dana Weigel, manager, Low Earth Orbit Program, NASA’s Johnson Space Center in Houston
• Mathieu Caron, director, Astronauts, Life Sciences, and Space Medicine, CSA
• William Gerstenmaier, vice president, Build and Flight Reliability, SpaceX
• Arlena Moses, launch weather officer, Cape Canaveral Space Force Station’s 45th Weather Squadron

The weather forecast as of today for launch on October 1 is 60 percent favorable.

Original Entry: NASA will hold a pre-launch news conference at Kennedy Space Center on September 30, 2026 at 2:30 pm ET for the launch of Crew-13 to the International Space Station according to a statement from NASA public affairs officer Anna Schneider at the end of the crew’s arrival ceremony on September 26. It has not been publicly posted yet, however.

She said the news conference will be livestreamed on NASA’s YouTube channel and X. Check NASA Live for the link.

Launch is scheduled for October 1 at 11:10 am ET, weather permitting, and docking to the ISS about 9 hours later at 8:00 pm ET.