SpaceX Dragon Launches Four Astronauts on Crew-13 Mission to ISS

Crew-13 marks the thirteenth operational crew rotation flown by Dragon, a cadence that has turned commercial human spaceflight into routine infrastructure rather than a novelty. That reliability matters beyond NASA: it underwrites the station's staffing and, by extension, the research and commercial activity that depends on a continuously crewed outpost. The open question is whether this flight rate holds as the ISS's planned end of life approaches and partners redirect attention toward commercial stations.