Luke Delaney

Luke Delaney is a NASA astronaut and a retired major in the United States Marine Corps, from DeBary, Florida. He enlisted in 1998, flew the KC-130 and trained as a test pilot at the U.S. Naval Test Pilot School, later teaching there. After retiring from the Marines in 2020, he became a research pilot at NASA’s Langley Research Center, logging more than 3,700 flight hours across 48 types of aircraft. NASA selected him in December 2021 as part of Astronaut Group 23. He launched on Crew-13 in October 2026, as part of Expedition 75 and Expedition 76 on the International Space Station. It is his first spaceflight.

Born: 25 August 1979
Country: United States
Flights: 1: SpaceX Crew-13 (2026)
Stations visited: International Space Station, as part of Expedition 75
Flights with a company: SpaceX Crew-13 (SpaceX)

Data as of 2 November 2026. Source: Wikidata (CC0). All people who have flown in space.

Events

1 October 2026

Crew-13
- Crew Dragon, Falcon 9
- Jessica Watkins, Luke Delaney, Joshua Kutryk, Sergey Teteryatnikov
Crew-13 overlapped with Crew-12 for a short handover. Joshua Kutryk of the Canadian Space Agency flew as the first commercial crew astronaut from his agency, as CSA described it at the news conference, and it was Jessica Watkins' second Dragon flight.
3 videos
- NASA
1 October 2026

SpaceX Crew-13
- Crew Dragon, Falcon 9
- Jessica Watkins, Luke Delaney, Joshua Kutryk, Sergey Teteryatnikov
1 video
- NASA