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NASA, SpaceX Set Oct. 1 for Earliest Crew-13 Launch Window

NASA and SpaceX have targeted 11:10 a.m. EDT on Oct. 1 as the earliest launch window for the Crew-13 mission to the International Space Station. The agency announced the date on [date not given]. Crew-13 would be the next crewed rotation flight to the orbiting laboratory under NASA’s commercial crew program.

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The scheduling signal here matters more than the date itself: Crew-13 is a routine rotation, not a new capability, so its significance lies in whether the commercial crew cadence holds without slipping. That cadence underpins ISS staffing and, by extension, the station's research and commercial-use pipeline. The open question is whether the Oct. 1 window is met or moves, since a slip would ripple through the next rotation's timing.

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