Who is Luke Delaney? Meet NASA test pilot preparing for his first spaceflight with SpaceX Crew 13

Luke Delaney is preparing to take the biggest leap of his career, trading the test-pilot cockpit for a seat aboard a spacecraft. He is set to make his first journey into space as the pilot of SpaceX’s Crew 13 mission to the International Space Station on 1st October.Delaney is part of the four-person Crew-13 team that plans to spend approximately six months living and working aboard the ISS. The crew includes NASA commander Jessica Watkins, Canadian Space Agency astronaut Joshua Kutryk and Roscosmos cosmonaut Sergey Teteryatnikov.Also read | Alternative rock: Inside the global race to mine asteroidsWho is Luke Delaney?Delaney has never commanded a space station mission before, but aviation has been at the heart of his career for years. Born in Florida and raised in DeBary, he graduated from Deltona High School in 1997 before pursuing mechanical engineering at the University of Florida.