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Good morning. The newest way to make a very long commute? Launch from Florida at 11:10 a.m., dock at the International Space Station that evening, and be inside by 9:19 p.m. That is the day NASA’s SpaceX Crew-13 had on October 1. Read NASA’s launch release.

NASA astronauts Jessica Watkins and Luke Delaney, Canadian Space Agency astronaut Joshua Kutryk, and Roscosmos cosmonaut Sergey Teteryatnikov are now part of Expedition 75. Their ride was a Dragon spacecraft carried by a Falcon 9 from Cape Canaveral.

Launches can look like the whole story. They are actually the delivery service for the work that starts after the hatch opens.

NASA says Crew-13 will help investigate human stem-cell-derived tissues for medicine and disease modeling, test a mostly autonomous plant-growth system, study blood-flow changes in microgravity, and evaluate a diagnostic device for astronaut health. That is an unusually grounded research agenda for a very ungrounded workplace.

The four-person team also keeps the station’s international operating rhythm moving. Reuters reports that this is NASA’s 13th long-duration ISS team flown aboard a SpaceX vehicle, and that the research emphasis includes human health and performance in orbit.

The crew has arrived; the mission is not finished. The medical, biology, and technology investigations are now getting underway, which means any eventual findings are still future tense.

NASA described the roughly seven-hour, 50-minute launch-to-docking profile as the fastest planned by a U.S. spacecraft in ISS history. The most important confirmed fact for today is simpler: the crew launched, docked, opened the hatch, and joined the station. See NASA’s station-arrival update.

Crew-13 turned one busy Thursday into a full ISS handover and the start of new health and biology experiments. In orbit, “first day at the office” can apparently include space-grown tissues and a microgravity plant nursery.

That is your morning signal. Coffee on Earth; gravity optional at work.