nhq202009280023 (Sept. 28, 2020) --- Expedition 64 NASA astronaut Kate Rubins, left, and Russian cosmonauts Sergey Ryzhikov, center, and Sergey Kud-Sverchkov, right, of Roscosmos take a moment during the Soyuz MS-17 spacecraft fit check to pose for a photograph, Monday, Sept. 28, 2020, at the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan. The trio are preparing for launch to the International Space Station in their Soyuz MS-17 spacecraft from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan on October 14, Baikonur time. Photo Credit: (NASA/GCTC/Andrey Shelepin)

Expedition 47 Flight Engineer Jeff Williams of NASA has his Russian Sokol suit pressure checked in preparation for his launch aboard the Soyuz TMA-20M spacecraft on Friday, March 18, 2016 at the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan. Launch of the Soyuz rocket is scheduled for the early hours of March 19 Baikonur time, and will carry Williams and fellow crewmates, Soyuz Commander Alexey Ovchinin and Flight Engineer Oleg Skripochka of Roscosmos, into orbit to begin their five and a half month mission on the International Space Station. Photo Credit: (GCTC/Andrey Shelepin)

Expedition 58 Flight Engineer Anne McClain of NASA is walked to the Soyuz vehicle for launch by Bill Gerstenmaier, associate administrator, Human Exploration and Operations, NASA, left, Monday, Dec. 3, 2018 in Baikonur, Kazakhstan. McClain, Flight Engineer David Saint-Jacques of the Canadian Space Agency (CSA), and Soyuz Commander Oleg Kononenko of Roscosmos, will spend the next six and a half months onboard the International Space Station. Photo Credit: (NASA/Aubrey Gemignani)

nhq202010060014 (Oct. 6, 2020) --- Expedition 64 Russian cosmonauts Sergey Ryzhikov, back, and Sergey Kud-Sverchkov of Roscosmos, front, take part in tilt table training, Tuesday, Oct. 6, 2020, at the Cosmonaut Hotel in Baikonur, Kazakhstan. Ryzhikov, Kud-Sverchkov, and Kate Rubins of NASA are scheduled to launch to the International Space Station aboard the Soyuz MS-17 spacecraft on October 14. Photo Credit: (NASA/GCTC/Andrey Shelepin)

The Soyuz rocket is seen on the launch pad as the service structure arms are closed around it, Monday, June 4, 2018 at the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan. Expedition 56 Soyuz Commander Sergey Prokopyev of Roscosmos, flight engineer Serena Auñón-Chancellor of NASA, and flight engineer Alexander Gerst of ESA (European Space Agency) are scheduled to launch aboard their Soyuz MS-09 spacecraft at 7:12 a.m. Eastern time (5:12 p.m. Baikonur time), on Wednesday, June 6. Photo Credit: (NASA/Joel Kowsky)

NASA astronaut Shane Kimbrough, left, Russian cosmonaut Sergey Ryzhikov of Roscosmos, center, and Russian cosmonaut Andrey Borisenko of Roscosmos sit in chairs outside the Soyuz MS-02 spacecraft a few moments after they landed in a remote area near the town of Zhezkazgan, Kazakhstan on Monday, April 10, 2017 (Kazakh time). Kimbrough, Ryzhikov, and Borisenko are returning after 173 days in space where they served as members of the Expedition 49 and 50 crews onboard the International Space Station. Photo Credit: (NASA/Bill Ingalls)

Workers prepare the Soyuz MS-02 spacecraft to be raised into a vertical position at launch on Sunday, Oct. 16, 2016 at the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan. Expedition 49 flight engineer Shane Kimbrough of NASA, Soyuz commander Sergey Ryzhikov of Roscosmos, and flight engineer Andrey Borisenko of Roscosmos are scheduled to launch from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan on Oct. 19. Photo Credit: (NASA/Joel Kowsky)

Russian cosmonaut Oleg Novitskiy of Roscosmos gets his hair cut, Monday, Nov. 14, 2016 at the Cosmonaut Hotel in Baikonur, Kazakhstan. NASA astronaut Peggy Whitson, Russian cosmonaut Oleg Novitskiy of Roscosmos, and ESA astronaut Thomas Pesquet will launch from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan the morning of November 18 (Kazakh time.) All three will spend approximately six months on the orbital complex. Photo Credit: (NASA/Bill Ingalls)

Russian cosmonaut Sergey Ryzhikov of Roscosmos is carried into a medical tent shortly after he, NASA astronaut Shane Kimbrough, and Russian cosmonaut Andrey Borisenko of Roscosmos landed in their Soyuz MS-02 spacecraft in a remote area near the town of Zhezkazgan, Kazakhstan on Monday, April 10, 2017 (Kazakh time). Kimbrough, Ryzhikov, and Borisenko are returning after 173 days in space where they served as members of the Expedition 49 and 50 crews onboard the International Space Station. Photo Credit: (NASA/Bill Ingalls)

nhq201806040034 (June 4, 2018) --- The Soyuz rocket is seen after being raised into a vertical position on the launch pad, Monday, June 4, 2018 at the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan. Expedition 56 Soyuz Commander Sergey Prokopyev of Roscosmos, flight engineer Serena Auñón-Chancellor of NASA, and flight engineer Alexander Gerst of ESA (European Space Agency) are scheduled to launch aboard their Soyuz MS-09 spacecraft at 7:12 a.m. Eastern time (5:12 p.m. Baikonur time), on Wednesday, June 6. Photo Credit: NASA/Joel Kowsky

nhq202009280025 (Sept. 28, 2020) --- Expedition 64 NASA astronaut Kate Rubins is seen inside the Soyuz MS-17 spacecraft during the fit check to with Russian cosmonauts Sergey Ryzhikov and Sergey Kud-Sverchkov of Roscosmos, Monday, Sept. 28, 2020, Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan. The trio are preparing for launch to the International Space Station in their Soyuz MS-17 spacecraft from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan on October 14, Baikonur time. Photo Credit: (NASA/GCTC/Andrey Shelepin)

iss074e0814783 (July 18, 2026) --- Roscosmos cosmonaut and Expedition 74 flight engineer Andrey Fedyaev poses for a portrait while holding a cake celebrating the recent arrival of three new crewmates aboard the International Space Station. Expedition 74 flight engineers Anna Kikina and Pyotr Dubrov, both from Roscosmos, and Anil Menon of NASA launched aboard the Soyuz MS-29 spacecraft from the Baikonur Cosmodrome on July 14, 2026. The trio docked to the orbital outpost's Rassvet module the same day, beginning an eight-and-a-half-month space research mission. Credit: NASA/Chris Williams

A Russian MI-8 helicopter departs the Soyuz MS-12 spacecraft landing site more than hour after the capsule landed with Expedition 60 crew members Nick Hague of NASA and Alexey Ovchinin of Roscosmos, along with visiting astronaut Hazzaa Ali Almansoori of the United Arab Emirates in a remote area near the town of Zhezkazgan, Kazakhstan, Thursday, Oct. 3, 2019. Hague and Ovchinin are returning after 203 days in space where they served as members of the Expedition 59 and 60 crews onboard the International Space Station. Almansoori logged 8 days in space during his first flight as an astronaut. Photo Credit: (NASA/Bill Ingalls)

nhq201609070006 (09/07/2016) --- Russian cosmonaut Oleg Skripochka of Roscosmos rest in a chair outside the Soyuz TMA-20M spacecraft a few moments after he and NASA astronaut Jeff Williams, and Russian cosmonaut Alexey Ovchinin of Roscosmos landed in a remote area near the town of Zhezkazgan, Kazakhstan on Wednesday, Sept. 7, 2016(Kazakh time). Williams, Ovchinin, and Skripochka are returning after 172 days in space where they served as members of the Expedition 47 and 48 crews onboard the International Space Station. Photo Credit: (NASA/Bill Ingalls)

nhq202103240050 (March 24, 2021) --- Expedition 65 backup crew members Russian cosmonaut Anton Shkaplerov, left, NASA astronaut Anne McClain, second from left, prime crew members NASA astronaut Mark Vande Hei, third from left, Russian cosmonaut Oleg Novitskiy of Roscosmos, third from right, and Russian cosmonaut Pyotr Dubrov of Roscosmos, second from right, and backup crew member Russian cosmonaut Oleg Artemyev of Roscosmos, right, pose for a photo in front of the Tsar Cannon in Red Square after laying flowers at the site where Russian space icons are interred as part of traditional pre-launch ceremonies, Wednesday, March 24, 2021 in Moscow. Photo Credit: (NASA/GCTC/Andrey Shelepin)

Expedition 47 NASA astronaut Jeff Williams is seen ahead of his Soyuz qualification exams with Russian cosmonauts Oleg Skripochka, and Alexei Ovchinin of Roscosmos, Wednesday, Feb. 24, 2016, at the Gagarin Cosmonaut Training Center (GCTC) in Star City, Russia. Photo Credit: (NASA/Bill Ingalls)

Expedition 62 crew member Jessica Meir of NASA is carried to an All Terrain Vehicle (ATV) shortly after she, NASA astronaut Andrew Morgan, and Roscosmos cosmonaut Oleg Skripochka landed in their Soyuz MS-15 spacecraft near the town of Zhezkazgan, Kazakhstan on Friday, April 17, 2020. Meir and Skripochka returned after 205 days in space, and Morgan after 272 days in space. All three served as Expedition 60-61-62 crew members onboard the International Space Station. Photo Credit: (NASA/GCTC/Andrey Shelepin)

Expedition 49 prime crew members Shane Kimbrough of NASA, left, Sergey Ryzhikov of Roscosmos, second from left, Andrey Borisenko of Roscosmos, third from left, are seen with backup crew members Nikolai Tikhonov of Roscosmos, third from right, Alexander Misurkin of Roscosmos, second from right, and Mark Vande Hei of NASA, right, in quarantine behind glass during a crew press conference Tuesday, Oct. 18, 2016. Kimbrough, Ryzhikov, and Borisenko are scheduled to launch to the International Space Station aboard the Soyuz MS-02 spacecraft from the Baikonur Cosmodrome on Oct. 19. Photo Credit: (NASA/Joel Kowsky)

Expedition 47 backup crew members: Russian cosmonaut Sergei Ryzhikov of Roscosmos, left, NASA astronaut Shane Kimbrough, center, and Russian cosmonaut Andre Borisenko of Roscosmos, walk out for their Soyuz qualification exams, Wednesday, Feb. 24, 2016, at the Gagarin Cosmonaut Training Center (GCTC) in Star City, Russia. Photo Credit: (NASA/Bill Ingalls)

Expedition 55 Commander Anton Shkaplerov of Roscosmos is seen on screen greeting Oleg Artemyev of Roscosmos the hatches were opened between the Soyuz MS-08 spacecraft and the International Space Station at the Moscow Mission Control Center in Korolev, Russia, Saturday, March 24, 2018, a few hours after the Soyuz MS-08 docked to the International Space Station. Hatches were opened at 5:48 p.m. Eastern time on March 23 (12:48 a.m. Moscow time on March 24) and Artemyev, Ricky Arnold of NASA, and Drew Feustel of NASA joined Expedition 55 Commander Anton Shkaplerov of Roscosmos, Scott Tingle of NASA, and Norishige Kanai of the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) onboard the orbiting laboratory. Photo Credit: (NASA/Joel Kowsky)

nhq201806040008 (June 4, 2018) --- Security personnel close a gate after the Soyuz rocket was rolled out of Building 112 as it is moved to the launch pad by train, Monday, June 4, 2018 at the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan. Expedition 56 Soyuz Commander Sergey Prokopyev of Roscosmos, flight engineer Serena Auñón-Chancellor of NASA, and flight engineer Alexander Gerst of ESA (European Space Agency) are scheduled to launch aboard their Soyuz MS-09 spacecraft at 7:12 a.m. Eastern time (5:12 p.m. Baikonur time), on Wednesday, June 6. Photo Credit: NASA/Joel Kowsky

nhq202009240043 (Sept. 24, 2020) --- Expedition 64 prime crew members, NASA astronaut Kate Rubins, left, Russian cosmonaut Sergey Ryzhikov of Roscosmos, center, and Russian cosmonaut Sergey Kud-Sverchkov of Roscosmos pose for a photo in front of the Tsar Cannon in Red Square after laying flowers at the site where Russian space icons are interred as part of traditional pre-launch ceremonies, Thursday, Sept. 24, 2020 in Moscow. Photo Credit: (NASA/GCTC/Irina Spector)

jsc2017e115218 (Sept.. 8, 2017) --- At the Space Museum in the town of Baikonur, Kazakhstan, Expedition 53-54 backup crewmembers Scott Tingle of NASA (left), Shannon Walker of NASA (center) and Anton Shkaplerov of Roscosmos (right) receive a briefing on the layout of the Baikonur Cosmodrome from a museum guide in a traditional pre-launch activity Sept. 8. They are serving as backups to the prime crewmembers, Joe Acaba of NASA, Alexander Misurkin of Roscosmos and Mark Vande Hei of NASA, who will launch on Sept. 13 from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan on the Soyuz MS-06 spacecraft for a five and a half month mission on the International Space Station. Credit: NASA/Victor Zelentsov

Richard Jones, manager of the Mission Management and Integration Office for NASA's Commercial Crew Program, left, speaks with NASA Administrator Bill Nelson, right, as NASA and SpaceX teams monitor the countdown of the launch of a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket carrying the company's Dragon spacecraft on NASA’s SpaceX Crew-6 mission with NASA astronauts Stephen Bowen and Warren "Woody" Hoburg, UAE (United Arab Emirates) astronaut Sultan Alneyadi, and Roscosmos cosmonaut Andrey Fedyaev onboard, Wednesday, March 1, 2023, in firing room four of the Rocco A. Petrone Launch Control Center at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida. NASA’s SpaceX Crew-6 mission is the first crew rotation mission of the SpaceX Dragon spacecraft and Falcon 9 rocket to the International Space Station as part of the agency’s Commercial Crew Program. Bowen, Hoburg, Alneyadi, and Fedyaev launched at 12:34 a.m. EST on March 2, from Launch Complex 39A at the Kennedy Space Center. Photo Credit: (NASA/Joel Kowsky)

nhq201611160029 (Nov. 16, 2016) --- Expedition 50 backup crew members are seen in quarantine behind glass during a crew press conference, from left, Russian cosmonaut Fyodor Yurchikhin of Roscosmos, and NASA astronaut Jack Fischer, Wednesday, Nov. 16, 2016 at the Cosmonaut Hotel in Baikonur, Kazakhstan. NASA astronaut Peggy Whitson, Russian cosmonaut Oleg Novitskiy of Roscosmos, and ESA astronaut Thomas Pesquet will launch from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan the morning of November 18 (Kazakh time.) All three will spend approximately six months on the orbital complex. Photo Credit: (NASA/Bill Ingalls)

Expedition 49 backup crewmemeber Mark Vande Hei is seen in quarantine behind glass during a crew press conference Tuesday, Oct. 18, 2016 at the Cosmonaut Hotel in Baikonur, Kazakhstan. Expedition 49 prime crewmembers Shane Kimbrough of NASA, Andrey Borisenko of Roscosmos, and Sergey Ryzhikov of Roscosmos are scheduled to launch to the International Space Station aboard the Soyuz MS-02 spacecraft from the Baikonur Cosmodrome on Oct. 19. Photo Credit: (NASA/Joel Kowsky)

The Soyuz rocket is rolled out by train to the launch pad, Monday, March 19, 2018 at the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan. Expedition 55 crewmembers Ricky Arnold and Drew Feustel of NASA and Oleg Artemyev of Roscosmos are scheduled to launch at 1:44 p.m. Eastern time (11:44 p.m. Baikonur time) on March 21 and will spend the next five months living and working aboard the International Space Station. Photo Credit: (NASA/Joel Kowsky)

nhq202103220043 (March 22, 2021) --- Expedition 65 backup crew members Russian cosmonaut Oleg Artemyev of Roscosmos, left, Russian cosmonaut Anton Shkaplerov of Roscosmos, center, and NASA astronaut Anne McClain, pose for a photo during Soyuz qualification exams Monday, March 22, 2021 at the Gagarin Cosmonaut Training Center (GCTC) in Star City, Russia, in advance of the Expedition 65 launch April 9 from Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan to the International Space Station. Photo Credit: (NASA/GCTC/Irina Spector)

nhq201610110009 (Oct. 11, 2016) --- Workers prepare the Soyuz MS-02 spacecraft for encapsulation in its fairing on Thursday, Tuesday, Oct. 11, 2016 at the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan. Expedition 49 flight engineer Shane Kimbrough of NASA, flight engineer Andrey Borisenko of Roscosmos, and Soyuz commander Sergey Ryzhikov of Roscosmos are scheduled to launch from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan on Oct. 19. Photo Credit: (NASA/Victor Zelentsov)

NASA, CSA, Roscosmos, and Russian Search and Recovery Forces meet at the Cosmonaut Hotel in Karaganda, Kazakhstan to discuss the readiness for the landing of Expedition 59 crew members Anne McClain of NASA, David Saint-Jacques of the Canadian Space Agency, and Oleg Kononenko of Roscosmos, Sunday, June 23, 2019. McClain, Saint-Jacques, and Kononenko are returning after 204 days in space where they served as members of the Expedition 58 and 59 crews onboard the International Space Station. Photo Credit: (NASA/Bill Ingalls)

NASA Administrator Bill Nelson, left, Bob Cabana, NASA associate administrator, center, and Kennedy Space Center director Janet Petro, right, wave as the vehicles carrying Roscosmos cosmonaut Andrey Fedyaev, NASA astronaut Warren “Woody" Hoburg, NASA astronaut Stephen Bowen, and UAE (United Arab Emirates) astronaut Sultan Alneyadi, depart the Neil A. Armstrong Operations and Checkout Building for Launch Complex 39A to board the SpaceX Dragon spacecraft for the Crew-6 mission launch, Wednesday, March 1, 2023, at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida. NASA’s SpaceX Crew-6 mission is the sixth crew rotation mission of the SpaceX Crew Dragon spacecraft and Falcon 9 rocket to the International Space Station as part of the agency’s Commercial Crew Program. Bowen, Hoburg, Alneyadi, and Fedyaev are scheduled to launch at 12:34 a.m. EST on March 2, from Launch Complex 39A at the Kennedy Space Center. Photo Credit: (NASA/Joel Kowsky)

jsc2017e100898 (July 18, 2017) --- At their Cosmonaut Hotel crew quarters in Baikonur, Kazakhstan, Expedition 52-53 backup crewmembers Norishige Kanai of the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA, left), Alexander Misurkin of the Russian Federal Space Agency (Roscosmos, center) and Mark Vande Hei of NASA (right) accept flowers during a traditional flag-raising ceremony July 18. They are serving as backups to Randy Bresnik of NASA, Sergey Ryazanskiy of Roscosmos and Paolo Nespoli of the European Space Agency, who will launch July 28 on the Soyuz MS-05 spacecraft from the Baikonur Cosmodrome for a five-month mission on the International Space Station. Credit: NASA/Victor Zelentsov

NASA, Canadian Space Agency, Roscosmos, and Russian Search and Recovery Forces deploy from Karaganda to Zhezkazgan, Kazakhstan in advance of the landing of Expedition 59 crew members Anne McClain of NASA, David Saint-Jacques of the Canadian Space Agency, and Oleg Kononenko of Roscosmos, Monday, June 24, 2019. McClain, Saint-Jacques, and Kononenko are returning after 204 days in space where they served as members of the Expedition 58 and 59 crews onboard the International Space Station. Photo Credit: (NASA/Bill Ingalls)

Expedition 47 Flight Engineer Oleg Skripochka of Roscosmos is helped into his Russian Sokol suit as he and fellow crewmates, Flight Engineer Jeff Williams of NASA, and Soyuz Commander Alexey Ovchinin of Roscosmos, prepare for their Soyuz launch to the International Space Station, on Friday, March 18, 2016 at the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan. Launch of the Soyuz rocket is scheduled for the early hours of March 19 Baikonur time, and will carry Ovchinin, Williams, and Skripochka into orbit to begin their five and a half month mission on the International Space Station. Photo Credit: (GCTC/Andrey Shelepin)

Expedition 53 Soyuz Commander Alexander Misurkin of Roscosmos dons his Sokol suit ahead of his Soyuz qualification exams with Mark Vande Hei and Joe Acaba of NASA, Thursday, Aug. 31, 2017 at the Gagarin Cosmonaut Training Center (GCTC) in Star City, Russia. Photo Credit: (NASA/Bill Ingalls)

Expedition 46 Soyuz Commander Yuri Malenchenko of the Russian Federal Space Agency (Roscosmos), left, and Flight Engineer Tim Kopra of NASA are seen as they speak with friends and family after having their Russian Sokol Suits pressure checked in preparation for launch aboard the Soyuz TMA-19M spacecraft, Tuesday, Dec. 15, 2015 in Baikonur, Kazakhstan. Launch of the Soyuz is scheduled for Dec. 15 and will carry Malenchenko, Kopra, and Flight Engineer Tim Peake of ESA (European Space Agency) into orbit to begin a six-month mission onboard the International Space Station. Photo Credit: (NASA/Joel Kowsky)

jsc2026e039166 (Aug. 14, 2020) --- Roscosmos cosmonaut and Soyuz MS-29 commander Pyotyr Dubrov poses for a portrait in his Sokol launch and entry suit at the Gagarin Cosmonaut Training Center in Star City, Russia. Credit: GCTC

The Soyuz MS-02 spacecraft is seen after being rotated into a horizontal position in preparation for encapsulation in its fairing on Thursday, Tuesday, Oct. 11, 2016 at the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan. Expedition 49 flight engineer Shane Kimbrough of NASA, flight engineer Andrey Borisenko of Roscosmos, and Soyuz commander Sergey Ryzhikov of Roscosmos are scheduled to launch from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan on Oct. 19. Photo Credit: (NASA/Victor Zelentsov)

jsc2020e017117 (April 9, 2020) - Expedition 63 Preflight - Expedition 63 crewmember Anatoly Ivanishin walks to board the Soyuz rocket prior to launch with Ivan Vagner of Roscosmos and Chris Cassidy of NASA, Thursday, April 9, 2020 at the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan. A few hours later, the trio lifted off on a Soyuz rocket for a six-and-a-half month mission on the International Space Station. Photo Credit: (NASA/GCTC/Andrey Shelepin)...

Workers prepare the Soyuz MS-02 spacecraft for encapsulation in its fairing on Thursday, Tuesday, Oct. 11, 2016 at the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan. Expedition 49 flight engineer Shane Kimbrough of NASA, flight engineer Andrey Borisenko of Roscosmos, and Soyuz commander Sergey Ryzhikov of Roscosmos are scheduled to launch from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan on Oct. 19. Photo Credit: (NASA/Victor Zelentsov)

Expedition 65 backup crew members Russian cosmonaut Anton Shkaplerov, left, NASA astronaut Anne McClain, second from left, prime crew members NASA astronaut Mark Vande Hei, third from left, Russian cosmonaut Oleg Novitskiy of Roscosmos, third from right, and Russian cosmonaut Pyotr Dubrov of Roscosmos, second from right, and backup crew member Russian cosmonaut Oleg Artemyev of Roscosmos, right, pose for a photo in front of the Tsar Cannon in Red Square after laying flowers at the site where Russian space icons are interred as part of traditional pre-launch ceremonies, Wednesday, March 24, 2021 in Moscow. Photo Credit: (NASA/GCTC/Andrey Shelepin)

Expedition 47 Soyuz Commander Alexey Ovchinin of Roscosmos has his Russian Sokol suit pressure checked in preparation for launch aboard the Soyuz TMA-20M spacecraft on Friday, March 18, 2016 at the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan. Launch of the Soyuz rocket is scheduled for the early hours of March 19 Baikonur time, and will carry Ovchinin and fellow crewmates, Flight Engineer Oleg Skripochka of Roscosmos and Flight Engineer Jeff Williams of NASA into orbit to begin their five and a half month mission on the International Space Station. Photo Credit: (NASA/Aubrey Gemignani)

Expedition 50 NASA astronaut Peggy Whitson, left, Russian cosmonaut Oleg Novitskiy of Roscosmos, center, and ESA astronaut Thomas Pesquet visit Red Square to lay roses at the site where Russian space icons are interred as part of traditional pre-launch ceremonies, Wednesday, Oct. 26, 2016, in Moscow. Photo Credit: (NASA/Bill Ingalls)

The Soyuz MS-05 spacecraft is seen as it is raised into a vertical position on the launch pad at the Baikonur Cosmodrome, Kazakhstan, Wednesday, July 26, 2017. Expedition 52 flight engineer Sergei Ryazanskiy of Roscosmos, flight engineer Randy Bresnik of NASA, and flight engineer Paolo Nespoli of ESA (European Space Agency), are scheduled to launch to the International Space Station aboard the Soyuz spacecraft from the Baikonur Cosmodrome on July 28. Photo Credit: (NASA/Joel Kowsky)

Expedition 49 flight engineer Andrey Borisenko of Roscosmos waits to have his Russian Sokol Suit pressure checked ahead of his launch aboard the Soyuz MS-02 spacecraft to the International Space Station with fellow crewmates Shane Kimbrough of NASA and Sergey Ryzhikov of Roscosmos Wednesday, Oct. 19, 2016 at the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan. Borisenko, Kimbrough, and Ryzhikov are scheduled to launch to the International Space Station aboard the Soyuz spacecraft from the Baikonur Cosmodrome on Oct. 19. Photo Credit: (NASA/Joel Kowsky)

NASA Administrator Bill Nelson, left, and Bob Cabana, NASA associate administrator, right, monitor the countdown of the launch of a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket carrying the company's Dragon spacecraft on NASA’s SpaceX Crew-6 mission with NASA astronauts Stephen Bowen and Warren "Woody" Hoburg, UAE (United Arab Emirates) astronaut Sultan Alneyadi, and Roscosmos cosmonaut Andrey Fedyaev onboard, Wednesday, March 1, 2023, in firing room four of the Rocco A. Petrone Launch Control Center at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida. NASA’s SpaceX Crew-6 mission is the first crew rotation mission of the SpaceX Dragon spacecraft and Falcon 9 rocket to the International Space Station as part of the agency’s Commercial Crew Program. Bowen, Hoburg, Alneyadi, and Fedyaev launched at 12:34 a.m. EST on March 2, from Launch Complex 39A at the Kennedy Space Center. Photo Credit: (NASA/Joel Kowsky)

Expedition 49 backup crew members Mark Vande Hei of NASA, left, Alexander Misurkin Soyuz, center, and Nikolai Tikhonov of Roscosmos, right, pose for a picture in front of the Soyuz MS-02 spacecraft during the final fit check of the spacecraft on Thursday, Oct. 13, 2016 at the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan. Expedition 49 flight engineer Shane Kimbrough of NASA, flight engineer Andrey Borisenko of Roscosmos, and Soyuz commander Sergey Ryzhikov of Roscosmos are scheduled to launch from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan on Oct. 19. Photo Credit: (NASA/Victor Zelentsov)

Expedition 68 astronaut Frank Rubio of NASA, left, and cosmonauts Sergey Prokopyev and Dmitri Petelin of Roscosmos, right, arrive at the launch pad to board their Soyuz MS-22 spacecraft for launch, Wednesday, Sept. 21, 2022, at the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan. Rubio, Prokopyev and Petelin launched onboard the Soyuz rocket from the Baikonur Cosmodrome for a mission on the International Space Station. Photo Credit: (NASA/Bill Ingalls)

Expedition 41 Flight Engineer Barry Wilmore of NASA answers a question during a press conference on Wednesday, Sept. 24, 2014, at the Cosmonaut Hotel in Baikonur, Kazakhstan. Launch of the Soyuz rocket is scheduled for Sept. 26 and will carry Wilmore, Elena Serova of the Russian Federal Space Agency (Roscosmos), and Alexander Samokutyaev of Roscosmos into orbit to begin their five and a half month mission on the International Space Station. Photo Credit: (NASA/Aubrey Gemignani)

nhq201611160031 (Nov. 16, 2016) --- Expedition 50 crew is seen in quarantine behind glass during a crew press conference, from left, NASA astronaut Peggy Whitson, Russian cosmonaut Oleg Novitskiy of Roscosmos, ESA astronaut Thomas Pesquet, Wednesday, Nov. 16, 2016 at the Cosmonaut Hotel in Baikonur, Kazakhstan. Whitson, Novitskiy, and Pesquet will launch from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan the morning of November 18 (Kazakh time.) All three will spend approximately six months on the orbital complex. Photo Credit: (NASA/Bill Ingalls)