Astronaut Joshua Kutryk is scheduled to launch aboard SpaceX's Crew-13 mission to the International Space Station on Thursday, Oct. 1, at 11:10 AM EDT from Space Launch Complex 40 at Cape Canaveral Space Force Station.^[5] The Canadian Space Agency confirmed the assignment on Sept. 30, marking the specific crew member for the flight that will depart Cape Canaveral on the morning of Oct. 1.^[1] This launch follows a busy period for spaceflight, including the Sept. 28 orbital test of SpaceX's Starship super-rocket from Texas and a Sept. 29 Earth gravity assist by the European Space Agency's Juice probe en route to the outer solar system.^[6][4] The mission timeline also sits alongside other recent space activities, such as the Sept. 28 detection of a bright X-ray source by the SRG observatory and the Sept. 15 JWST observations of the planetary-mass object SIMP 0136.^[2][3]