The SpaceX Falcon 9 first stage booster that will launch NASA’s SpaceX Crew-1 mission arrived in Florida Tuesday, July 14, 2020. The rocket was shipped from the SpaceX facility in McGregor, Texas, and will now undergo prelaunch processing in the company’s facility on nearby Cape Canaveral Air Force Station.

Two NASA F/A-18s flown by NASA Dryden research pilots Jim Smolka and Nils Larson cruise over the Texas landscape after supporting a SOFIA check flight in May 2007.

NASA Astronaut Frank Rubio addresses a colleague during a spacewalk robotics training on May 11, 2022 in Building 9 of NASA's Johnson Space Center in Houston, Texas.

NASA Astronaut Frank Rubio smiles during a spacewalk robotics training on May 11, 2022 in Building 9 of NASA's Johnson Space Center in Houston, Texas.

Holly Ridings is a global leader in human spaceflight. She is NASA's first female chief flight director, and currently leads the Gateway Program as its deputy program manager.

NASA Astronaut Frank Rubio trains for his upcoming International Space Station mission in a T-38 jet at Ellington Field in Houston, Texas.

NASA Astronaut Frank Rubio trains for his upcoming International Space Station mission in a T-38 jet at Ellington Field in Houston, Texas.

NASA Astronaut Frank Rubio trains for his upcoming mission to the International Space Station in a spacesuit at NASA's Johnson Space Center in Houston.

NASA Astronaut Frank Rubio dons a spacesuit at the Neutral Buoyancy Laboratory at NASA's Johnson Space Center in Houston to train for spacewalks.

The test director runs through a check list as a military test volunteer prepares to undergo a rapid decompression test.

The low pressure (hypobaric) chamber at KBR’s facility in San Antonio, Texas, simulates very high altitudes by reducing the air pressure inside of the chamber. The subject inside the chamber experiences the reduced pressure conditions that exist at higher altitudes, in this case altitudes up to 60,000 feet.

NASA Astronaut Frank Rubio trains with hardware at the Space Vehicle Mockup Facility at NASA's Johnson Space Center before his flight to the International Space Station.

NASA Astronaut Frank Rubio converses with NASA Astronaut Loral O'Hara while wearing a spacesuit in a mockup of an International Space Station airlock as part of his training for his upcoming mission.

NASA Chief Technologist Douglas Terrier joined Jacobs General Manager Lon Miller during a tour of the company's Engineering Development Facility in Houston. Jacobs provides advanced technologies used aboard the international Space Station and for deep space exploration.

NASA Astronaut Frank Rubio addresses his instructors and crew trainers in a ceremony at the Space Vehicle Mockup Facility at NASA's Johnson Space Center in Houston.

NASA Astronaut Frank Rubio (far left) poses for a group photograph with his Expedition 68 crewmates in the Space Vehicle Mockup Facility at NASA's Johnson Space Center in Houston following a training to prepare for the unlikely event of emergency scenarios before their mission to the International Space Station.