Expedition 51 NASA Flight Engineer Jack Fischer's family is seen at a pre-launch press conference on Wednesday, April 19, 2017 at the Cosmonaut Hotel in Baikonur, Kazakhstan. From left to right are Fischer's daughter, Sariah, his wife, Elizabeth, and daughter Bethany. Launch of the Expedition 51 crew is scheduled for April 20 and will carry Fischer and Soyuz Commander Fyodor Yurchikhin of Roscosmos into orbit to begin their four and a half month mission on the International Space Station. Photo Credit: (NASA/Aubrey Gemignani).

NASA and Roscosmos team members, along with Russian Search and Recovery Forces, meet at the Cosmonaut Hotel in Karaganda, Kazakhstan to discuss the readiness for the landing of Expedition 56 Commander Drew Feustel and Flight Engineer Ricky Arnold of NASA, along with Flight Engineer and Soyuz Commander Oleg Artemyev of Roscosmos Tuesday, Oct. 2, 2018. Feustel, Arnold, and Artemyev are returning after 197 days in space where they served as members of the Expedition 55 and 56 crews onboard the International Space Station. Photo Credit: (NASA/Bill Ingalls)

jsc2016e181698 (Nov. 9, 2016) --- In the Integration Facility at the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan, the Soyuz MS-03 spacecraft begins its rotation into position for its encapsulation into the upper stage of its Soyuz booster Nov. 9. Expedition 50-51 crew members Peggy Whitson of NASA, Oleg Novitskiy of the Russian Federal Space Agency (Roscosmos) and Thomas Pesquet of the European Space Agency will launch on the Soyuz Nov. 18, Baikonur time, for a six-month mission on the International Space Station. NASA/Alexander Vysotsky

Serena Auñón-Chancellor of NASA arrives at the Zhezkazgan, Kazakhstan airport after she, Alexander Gerst of ESA (European Space Agency) and, Sergey Prokopyev of Roscosmos landed in their Soyuz MS-09 spacecraft in a remote area outside of town on Thursday, Dec. 20, 2018. Auñón-Chancellor, Gerst, and Prokopyev are returning after 197 days in space where they served as members of the Expedition 56 and 57 crews onboard the International Space Station. Photo Credit: (NASA/Bill Ingalls)

A Russian search and rescue helicopter departs the Zhezkazgan airport in Kazakhstan to support the landing of the Soyuz TMA-08M spacecraft with Expedition 36 Commander Pavel Vinogradov of the Russian Federal Space Agency (Roscosmos), Flight Engineer Alexander Misurkin of Roscosmos and Flight Engineer Chris Cassidy, Wednesday, Sept. 11, 2013. Vinogradov, Misurkin and Cassidy are returning to Earth after five and a half months on the International Space Station. Photo Credit: (NASA/Bill Ingalls)

Expedition 41 Flight Engineer Elena Serova of the Russian Federal Space Agency (Roscosmos) has her Russian Sokol suit pressure checked in preparation for her launch onboard the Soyuz TMA-14M spacecraft on Thursday, September 25, 2014, at the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan. The Soyuz spacecraft with Serova, Expedition 41 Soyuz Commander Alexander Samokutyaev of Roscosmos and Flight Engineer Barry WIlmore of NASA is scheduled to launch at 2:25 a.m. Kazakhstan Time on Friday, September 26. Serova will become the fourth Russian woman to fly in space and the first Russian woman to live and work on the station. Photo Credit: (NASA/Joel Kowsky)

Expedition 60 flight engineer Drew Morgan of NASA has his Russian Sokol suit pressure checked in preparation for launch aboard the Soyuz MS-13 spacecraft, Saturday, July 20, 2019 at the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan. Morgan, Alexander Skvortsov of Roscosmos, and Luca Parmitano of ESA (European Space Agency) launched aboard the Soyuz MS-13 spacecraft at 12:28 p.m. Eastern time (9:28 p.m. Baikonur time) on July 20 to begin their journey to the International Space Station. Photo Credit: (NASA/Joel Kowsky)

The Soyuz TMA-08M spacecraft with Expedition 36 Commander Pavel Vinogradov of the Russian Federal Space Agency (Roscosmos), Flight Engineer Alexander Misurkin of Roscosmos and Flight Engineer Chris Cassidy of NASA aboard, is seen as it lands in a remote area near the town of Zhezkazgan, Kazakhstan, on Wednesday, Sept. 11, 2013. Vinogradov, Misurkin and Cassidy returned to Earth after five and a half months on the International Space Station. Photo Credit: (NASA/Bill Ingalls)

jsc2025e074503 (July 2, 2025) --- Roscosmos cosmonaut and Soyuz MS-28 Backup Flight Engineer Anna Kikina poses for a portrait in her Sokol launch and entry suit at the Gagarin Cosmonaut Training Center in Star City, Russia. Credit: GCTC

Expedition 50 prime and backup crews are seen in quarantine behind glass during the State Commission meeting to approve the Soyuz launch to the International Space Station, from left, NASA astronaut Peggy Whitson, Russian cosmonaut Oleg Novitskiy of Roscosmos, ESA astronaut Thomas Pesquet, backup crew members ESA astronaut Paolo Nespoli, Russian cosmonaut Fyodor Yurchikhin of Roscosmos, and NASA astronaut Jack Fischer, 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)

A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket carrying the company's Dragon spacecraft is launched on NASA’s SpaceX Crew-10 mission to the International Space Station with NASA astronauts Anne McClain and Nichole Ayers, JAXA (Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency) astronaut Takuya Onishi, and Roscosmos cosmonaut Kirill Peskov onboard, Friday, March 14, 2025, from NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida. NASA’s SpaceX Crew-10 mission is the tenth 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. McClain, Ayers, Onishi, and Peskov launched at 7:03 p.m. EDT from Launch Complex 39A at the NASA's Kennedy Space Center to begin a six month mission aboard the orbital outpost. Photo Credit: (NASA/Aubrey Gemignani)

Expedition 52 flight engineer Sergei Ryazanskiy of Roscosmos has his Russian Sokol Suit pressure checked in preparation for launch aboard the Soyuz MS-05 spacecraft, Friday, July 28, 2017 in Baikonur, Kazakhstan. Ryazanskiy, flight engineer Randy Bresnik of NASA, and flight engineer Paolo Nespoli of ESA (European Space Agency), launched at 11:41 a.m. EDT on July 28 (9:41 p.m. Baikonur time) to begin a four and a half month mission aboard the International Space Station. Photo Credit: (NASA/Joel Kowsky)

The Soyuz rocket is rolled out by train to the launch pad, Saturday, July 11, 2026, at Site 31 of the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan. Expedition 75 crewmembers: NASA astronaut Anil Menon, Roscosmos cosmonauts Pyotr Dubrov and Anna Kikina are scheduled to launch aboard their Soyuz MS-29 spacecraft on July 14. Photo Credit: (NASA/Bill Ingalls)

Expedition 60 flight engineer Drew Morgan of NASA, left, Soyuz Commander Alexander Skvortsov of Roscosmos, center, and flight engineer Luca Parmitano of ESA (European Space Agency), right, wave as they depart the Cosmonaut Hotel to suit-up for their Soyuz launch to the International Space Station, Saturday, July 20, 2019 in Baikonur, Kazakhstan. Launch of the Soyuz MS-13 spacecraft with Skvortsov, Morgan, and Parmitano occurred at 12:28 p.m. Eastern time (9:28 p.m. Baikonur time) on July 20 beginning their mission to the International Space Station. Photo Credit: (NASA/Joel Kowsky)

201405140004hq (14 May 2014) --- Expedition 39 Flight Engineer Rick Mastracchio of NASA is helped out of the Soyuz Capsule just minutes after he and Expedition 39 Commander Koichi Wakata of the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) and Soyuz Commander Mikhail Tyurin of Roscosmos landed in their Soyuz TMA-11M spacecraft near the town of Zhezkazgan, Kazakhstan May 14, 2014. Wakata, Tyurin and Mastracchio returned to Earth after more than six months onboard the International Space Station where they served as members of the Expedition 38 and 39 crews. Photo credit: NASA/Bill Ingalls

NASA Deputy Administrator Dava Newman escorts Expedition 49 flight engineer Shane Kimbrough of NASA as he prepares to board the Soyuz MS-02 spacecraft for launch, Wednesday, Oct. 19, 2016 at the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan. Kimbrough and his crewmates Sergey Ryzhikov and Andrey Borisenko of Roscosmos will spend the next four months living and working aboard the International Space Station. Photo Credit: (NASA/Joel Kowsky)

Expedition 36 Commander Pavel Vinogradov of the Russian Federal Space Agency (Roscosmos) is helped out a helicopter at the Karaganda airport in Kazakhstan after having been flown from the Soyuz TMA-08M spacecraft landing site in a remote area near the town of Zhezkazgan, Wednesday, Sept. 11, 2013. Vinogradov, Flight Engineer Alexander Misurkin of Roscosmos, and Flight Engineer Chris Cassidy of NASA returned to Earth after five and a half months on the International Space Station. Photo Credit: (NASA/Bill Ingalls)

Expedition 59 cosmonaut Alexey Ovchinin of Roscosmos has his Sokol suit pressure checked a few hours ahead of his launch on a Soyuz rocket with Nick Hague and Christina Koch of NASA, Thursday, March 14, 2019 at the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan. Hague, Koch, and Ovchinin launched March 14, U.S. time, on the Soyuz MS-12 spacecraft from the Baikonur Cosmodrome for a six-and-a-half month mission on the International Space Station. Photo Credit: (NASA/Bill Ingalls)

Sergey Prokopyev of Roscosmos is helped out of the Soyuz MS-09 spacecraft just minutes after he, Serena Auñón-Chancellor of NASA, and Alexander Gerst of ESA (European Space Agency) landed in a remote area near the town of Zhezkazgan, Kazakhstan on Thursday, Dec. 20, 2018. Auñón-Chancellor, Gerst, and Prokopyev are returning after 197 days in space where they served as members of the Expedition 56 and 57 crews onboard the International Space Station. Photo Credit: (NASA/Bill Ingalls)

Expedition 54 Soyuz Commander Anton Shkaplerov of Roscosmos prepares to have his Russian Sokol suit pressure checked in preparation for launch aboard the Soyuz MS-07 spacecraft, Sunday, Dec. 17, 2017 at the Baikonur Cosmodrome Kazakhstan. Launch of the Soyuz rocket will send Shkaplerov and fellow crewmates flight engineer Scott Tingle of NASA and flight engineer Norishige Kanai of Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) on a five month mission aboard the International Space Station. Photo Credit: (NASA/Joel Kowsky)

Aboard a Gagarin Cosmonaut Training Center aircraft en route to their launch site at the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan, Expedition 52-53 Flight Engineers Randy Bresnik of NASA (left), Sergey Ryazanskiy of the Russian Federal Space Agency (Roscosmos, center) and Paolo Nespoli of the European Space Agency (right) point to the stickers bearing the Soyuz and Expedition 53 mission insignias that they affixed to the wall of the plane’s cabin July 16 in a traditional ceremony. Bresnik, Ryazanskiy Nespoli will launch July 28 from Baikonur on the Soyuz MS-05 spacecraft for a five-month mission on the International Space Station. Credit: NASA/Victor Zelentsov

Expedition 52 flight engineer Sergei Ryazanskiy of Roscosmos has his Russian Sokol Suit pressure checked in preparation for launch aboard the Soyuz MS-05 spacecraft, Friday, July 28, 2017 in Baikonur, Kazakhstan. Ryazanskiy, flight engineer Randy Bresnik of NASA, and flight engineer Paolo Nespoli of ESA (European Space Agency), launched at 11:41 a.m. EDT on July 28 (9:41 p.m. Baikonur time) to begin a four and a half month mission aboard the International Space Station. Photo Credit: (NASA/Joel Kowsky)

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)

Expedition 54 Soyuz Commander Anton Shkaplerov of Roscosmos has his Russian Sokol suit pressure checked in preparation for launch aboard the Soyuz MS-07 spacecraft, Sunday, Dec. 17, 2017 at the Baikonur Cosmodrome Kazakhstan. Launch of the Soyuz rocket will send Shkaplerov and fellow crewmates flight engineer Scott Tingle of NASA and flight engineer Norishige Kanai of Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) on a five month mission aboard the International Space Station. Photo Credit: (NASA/Joel Kowsky)

A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket carrying the company's Dragon spacecraft is launched on NASA’s SpaceX Crew-11 mission to the International Space Station with NASA astronauts Zena Cardman, Mike Fincke, JAXA (Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency) astronaut Kimiya Yui, and Roscosmos cosmonaut Oleg Platonov onboard, Friday, Aug. 1, 2025, from NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida. NASA’s SpaceX Crew-11 mission is the eleventh 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. Cardman, Fincke, Yui, Platonov launched at 11:43 a.m. EDT from Launch Complex 39A at the NASA's Kennedy Space Center to begin a six month mission aboard the orbital outpost. Photo Credit: (NASA/Joel Kowsky)

Expedition 36 Flight Engineer Chris Cassidy of NASA is helped out of a helicopter at the Karaganda airport in Kazakhstan after having been flown from the Soyuz TMA-08M spacecraft landing site in a remote area near the town of Zhezkazgan, Wednesday, Sept. 11, 2013. Cassidy, Commander Pavel Vinogradov of Russian Federal Space Agency (Roscosmos), and Flight Engineer Alexander Misurkin of Roscosmos returned to Earth after five and a half months on the International Space Station. Photo Credit: (NASA/Bill Ingalls)

jsc2016e181699 (Nov. 9, 2016) --- In the Integration Facility at the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan, the Soyuz MS-03 spacecraft begins its rotation into position for its encapsulation into the upper stage of its Soyuz booster Nov. 9. Expedition 50-51 crew members Peggy Whitson of NASA, Oleg Novitskiy of the Russian Federal Space Agency (Roscosmos) and Thomas Pesquet of the European Space Agency will launch on the Soyuz Nov. 18, Baikonur time, for a six-month mission on the International Space Station. NASA/Alexander Vysotsky

Expedition 60 flight engineer Drew Morgan of NASA, left, Soyuz Commander Alexander Skvortsov of Roscosmos, center, and flight engineer Luca Parmitano of ESA (European Space Agency), right, are seen as they depart the Cosmonaut Hotel to suit-up for their Soyuz launch to the International Space Station, Saturday, July 20, 2019 in Baikonur, Kazakhstan. Launch of the Soyuz MS-13 spacecraft with Skvortsov, Morgan, and Parmitano occurred at 12:28 p.m. Eastern time (9:28 p.m. Baikonur time) on July 20 beginning their mission to the International Space Station. Photo Credit: (NASA/Joel Kowsky)

Head of the Search-and-Rescue Department of Rosaviatsiya (Russian Federal Agency for Air Transport) Sergey A. Prusov listens as he leads a meeting with NASA and Roscosmos to discuss the readiness for the landing of Expedition 56 crew members Drew Feustel and Ricky Arnold of NASA, along with Oleg Artemyev of Roscosmos Tuesday, Oct. 2, 2018, at the Cosmonaut Hotel in Karaganda, Kazakhstan. Feustel, Arnold, and Artemyev are returning after 197 days in space where they served as members of the Expedition 55 and 56 crews onboard the International Space Station. Photo Credit: (NASA/Bill Ingalls)

Expedition 58 backup crew member, Flight Engineer Andrew Morgan of NASA, is seen during a press conference, Sunday, Dec. 2, 2018 at the Cosmonaut Hotel in Baikonur, Kazakhstan. Launch of the Soyuz rocket is scheduled for Dec. 3 and will carry Expedition 58 prime crew members, Soyuz Commander Oleg Kononenko of Roscosmos, Flight Engineer Anne McClain of NASA, and Flight Engineer David Saint-Jacques of the Canadian Space Agency (CSA) into orbit to begin their six and a half month mission on the International Space Station. Photo Credit: (NASA/Aubrey Gemignani).

Expedition 52 Flight Engineer Peggy Whitson of NASA rests in a chair outside the Soyuz MS-04 spacecraft a few moments after she and NASA astronaut Jack Fischer and Roscosmos cosmonaut Fyodor Yurchikhin landed in a remote area near the town of Zhezkazgan, Kazakhstan on Sunday, Sept. 3, 2017 (Kazakh time). Whitson is returning after 288 days in space where she served as a member of the Expedition 50, 51 and 52 crews. Yurchikhin and Fischer are returning after 136 days in space where they served as members of the Expedition 51 and 52 crews onboard the International Space Station. Photo Credit: (NASA/Bill Ingalls)

Expedition 59 astronaut Nick Hague of NASA, gives a thumbs up to family and friends as he, Alexey Ovchinin of Roscosmos, and Christina Koch of NASA head to the launch pad, Thursday, March 14, 2019 at the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan. Hague, Koch, and Ovchinin launched March 14, U.S. time, on the Soyuz MS-12 spacecraft from the Baikonur Cosmodrome for a six-and-a-half month mission on the International Space Station. Photo Credit: (NASA/Victor Zelentsov)

jsc2018e084340 (Sept. 25, 2018) --- Expedition 57 backup crew members Oleg Kononenko of Roscosmos (foreground) and David Saint-Jacques of the Canadian Space Agency report to Russian space officials Sept. 25 upon arriving at their launch site in Baikonur, Kazakhstan for final pre-launch training after a flight from their training base in Star City, Russia. They are backups to the prime crew members, Nick Hague of NASA and Alexey Ovchinin of Roscosmos, who will launch Oct. 11 from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan on the Soyuz MS-10 spacecraft for a six-month mission on the International Space Station. Credit: NASA/Victor Zelentsov

Expedition 50 ESA astronaut Thomas Pesquet, left, Russian cosmonaut Oleg Novitskiy of Roscosmos, center, and NASA astronaut Peggy Whitson tour the museum at the Gagarin Cosmonaut Training Center (GCTC), Wednesday, Oct. 26, 2016, in Star City, Russia. Photo Credit: (NASA/Bill Ingalls)

The Soyuz MS-04 spacecraft is seen as it lands with Expedition 52 Commander Fyodor Yurchikhin of Roscosmos and Flight Engineers Peggy Whitson and Jack Fischer of NASA near the town of Zhezkazgan, Kazakhstan on Sunday, Sept. 3, 2017 (Kazakh time). The vapor coming off of the Soyuz is from the leftover hydrogen peroxide fuel being purged from the capsule. Whitson is returning after 288 days in space where she served as a member of the Expedition 50, 51 and 52 crews. Yurchikhin and Fischer are returning after 136 days in space where they served as members of the Expedition 51 and 52 crews onboard the International Space Station. Photo Credit: (NASA/Bill Ingalls)

Expedition 59 astronaut Nick Hague and Christina Koch of NASA give a thumbs up while getting their Sokol suit pressure checked prior to launch on a Soyuz rocket with Alexey Ovchinin of Roscosmos, Thursday, March 14, 2019 at the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan. Hague, Koch, and Ovchinin launched March 14, U.S. time, on the Soyuz MS-12 spacecraft from the Baikonur Cosmodrome for a six-and-a-half month mission on the International Space Station. Photo Credit: (NASA/Bill Ingalls)

Yuri Lonchakov, Director of the Gagarin Cosmonaut Training Center (GCTC), makes remarks during the State Commission meeting to approve the Soyuz launch of Expedition 47 to the International Space Station, Thursday, March 17, 2016, at the Cosmonaut Hotel in Baikonur, Kazakhstan. Launch of the Soyuz rocket is scheduled for March 19 and will carry Expedition 47 Soyuz Commander Alexey Ovchinin of Roscosmos, Flight Engineer Jeff Williams of NASA, 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: (NASA/Aubrey Gemignani)

The Soyuz rocket launches to the International Space Station with Expedition 74 crew members: NASA astronaut Chris Williams, Roscosmos cosmonauts Sergey Kud-Sverchkov and Sergei Mikaev, onboard, Thursday, Nov. 27, 2025, at the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan. Photo Credit: (NASA/Bill Ingalls)

Expedition 52 flight engineer Paolo Nespoli of ESA (European Space Agency), left, flight engineer Sergei Ryazanskiy of Roscosmos, center, and flight engineer Randy Bresnik of NASA, right, walk out Building 254 as they prepare to depart for the launch pad, Friday, July 28, 2017 in Baikonur, Kazakhstan. The Soyuz rocket launched at 11:41 a.m. EDT on July 28 (9:41 p.m. Baikonur time) to start Ryazanskiy, Bresnik, and Nespoli on a four and a half month mission aboard the International Space Station. Photo Credit: (NASA/Victor Zelentsov)

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)

Russian Search and Rescue teams deploy to the Expedition 52 Soyuz MS-04 landing zone Sunday, Sept. 3, 2017 (Kazakh time). The Soyuz capsule landed with Commander Fyodor Yurchikhin of Roscosmos and Flight Engineers Peggy Whitson and Jack Fischer of NASA. Whitson is returned after 288 days in space where she served as a member of the Expedition 50, 51 and 52 crews. Yurchikhin and Fischer are returned after 136 days in space where they served as members of the Expedition 51 and 52 crews onboard the International Space Station. Photo Credit: (NASA/Bill Ingalls)

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)

Expedition 74 backup crew member Anil Menon of NASA is seen in quarantine, behind glass, during a press conference, Wednesday, Nov. 26, 2025 a the Cosmonaut Hotel in Baikonur, Kazakhstan. Expedition 74 crewmembers: NASA astronaut Chris Williams, Roscosmos cosmonauts Sergey Kud-Sverchkov and Sergei Mikaev, are scheduled to launch aboard their Soyuz MS-28 spacecraft on November 27. Photo Credit: (NASA/Bill Ingalls)

jsc2017e115212 (Sept.. 8, 2017) --- At the Cosmonaut Hotel crew quarters in Baikonur, Kazakhstan, Expedition 53-54 crewmembers Joe Acaba of NASA (left), Alexander Misurkin of Roscosmos (center) and Mark Vande Hei of NASA (right) pose for pictures Sept. 8 after Vande Hei planted a tree bearing his name in a traditional pre-launch ceremony. Acaba, Misurkin and Vande Hei will launch 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

nhq202504200050 (April 20, 2025) --- NASA astronaut Don Pettit, center, walks and smiles, while supported, as part of standard post-landing procedures, by NASA Flight Surgeons Quinn Dufurrena, left, Rainer Effenhauser, right, and Richard Scheuring, background, during a brief layover in Prestwick, Scotland during his return flight to Houston from Karaganda, Kazakhstan, Sunday, April 20, 2025. Pettit, along with Roscosmos cosmonauts Alexey Ovchinin, and Ivan Vagner, returned to Earth earlier in the day after logging 220 days in space as members of Expeditions 71 and 72 aboard the International Space Station. Credit: NASA/Bill Ingalls

jsc2018e085897 (Oct. 3, 2018) --- Expedition 57 crew member Alexey Ovchinin of Roscosmos plays a game of billiards as part of the traditional pre-launch activities, Wednesday, Oct. 3, 2018 at the Cosmonaut Hotel in Baikonur, Kazakhstan. Ovchinin and Nick Hague of NASA are scheduled to launch on Oct. 11 onboard the Soyuz MS-10 spacecraft from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan for a six-month mission on the International Space Station. Photo Credit: (NASA/Victor Zelentsov)

ATV-5 docking seen from inside the ISS Credit: Roscosmos/O. Artemiev

The Soyuz rocket and Soyuz TMA-16M spacecraft are assembled at Building 112 on the Baikonur Cosmodrome on Tuesday, March 24, 2015 in Baikonur, Kazakhstan. NASA Astronaut Scott Kelly, and Russian Cosmonauts Mikhail Kornienko, and Gennady Padalka of the Russian Federal Space Agency (Roscosmos) are scheduled to launch to the International Space Station in the Soyuz TMA-16M spacecraft from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan March 28, Kazakh time (March 27 Eastern time.) As the one-year crew, Kelly and Kornienko will return to Earth on Soyuz TMA-18M in March 2016. Photo Credit: (NASA/Victor Zelentsov)

На авиакосмическом салоне МАКС-2015 в Жуковском представлена объединенная экспозиция Роскосмоса и предприятий ракетно-космической промышленности. На стенде Роскосмоса посетители могут увидеть экспонаты, отражающие развитие основных направлений освоения космического пространства: орбитальная группировка, лунная программа, пилотируемые программы.

Автор фото: Андрей Становов

The joint exposition of Roscosmos and enterprises of space industry are exposed on international aviation and space salon MAKS-2015. On the joint exposition there are available different exhibits, which are give a demonstration of the main directions of space exploration theme: development of orbital fleet, Lunar and manned-flight programs.

Photo by Andrey Stanovov.

Expedition 54 flight engineer Norishige Kanai of the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA), left, Soyuz Commander Anton Shkaplerov of Roscosmos, center, and flight engineer Scott Tingle of NASA, right, are seen as they depart the Cosmonaut Hotel to suit-up for their Soyuz launch to the International Space Station, Sunday, Dec. 17, 2017 in Baikonur, Kazakhstan. Launch of the Soyuz rocket is scheduled for 2:21 a.m. Eastern Time (1:21 p.m. Baikonur time) on December 17 and will send Shkaplerov, Tingle, and Kanai on a five month mission aboard the International Space Station. Photo Credit: (NASA/Joel Kowsky)