SpaceX launched the Crew-13 mission aboard a Falcon 9 rocket from Cape Canaveral Space Force Station, Florida, sending four astronauts to the International Space Station on October 1, 2026.^[1] The mission utilized a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket and Crew Dragon spacecraft to reach orbit from Florida, USA.^[6] This deployment follows a separate announcement in August that a rescue mission for the Swift Observatory was aborted because the Link spacecraft could not reach the observatory.^[2] On the same day, October 1, 2026, SpaceX also planned to launch the Transporter 18 rideshare mission aboard a Falcon 9 rocket from Space Launch Complex 4E at Vandenberg Space Force Base at 11:18 AM PDT.^[3] Meanwhile, the Korea Astronomy and Space Science Institute announced the Chuseok full moon would rise at 17:34 Seoul time on the 25th.^[4] In other deep-space activity, the SVOM mission detected the blazar 1ES 1959+650 with the ECLAIRs telescope on September 18, 2026, between 14:26:39.898 and 17:12:50.386 UTC.^[7] A lunar probe also detected a massive impact crater on the Moon's surface caused by a violent collision with a comet or asteroid.^[5]