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

NASA Administrator Jim Bridenstine provides remarks at a bipartisan Congressional Caucus for Women’s Issues briefing on NASA’s Artemis lunar exploration program, Wednesday, September 11, 2019 at the Rayburn House Office Building in Washington. Photo Credit: (NASA/Aubrey Gemignani)

Lee Rosen, vice president, Mission and Launch Operations at SpaceX pats Norm Knight, deputy director of Flight Operations at NASA's Johnson Space Center on the back as they watch the launch of a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket carrying the company's Crew Dragon spacecraft on NASA’s SpaceX Crew-1 mission with NASA astronauts Mike Hopkins, Victor Glover, Shannon Walker, and Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) astronaut Soichi Noguchi onboard, Sunday, Nov. 15, 2020, in firing room four of the Launch Control Center at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida. NASA’s SpaceX Crew-1 mission is the first 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. Hopkins, Glover, Walker, and Noguchi launched at 7:27 p.m. EST, from Launch Complex 39A at the Kennedy Space Center. Photo Credit: (NASA/Aubrey Gemignani)

The Orbital ATK Antares rocket, with the Cygnus spacecraft onboard, launches from Pad-0A, Monday, May 21, 2018 at NASA's Wallops Flight Facility in Virginia. Orbital ATK’s ninth contracted cargo resupply mission with NASA to the International Space Station will deliver approximately 7,400 pounds of science and research, crew supplies and vehicle hardware to the orbital laboratory and its crew. Photo Credit: (NASA/Aubrey Gemignani)

The OrbitBeyond lunar rover is seen, Friday, May 31, 2019, at Goddard Space Flight Center in Md. Astrobotic, Intuitive Machines, and OrbitBeyond have been selected to provide the first lunar landers for the Artemis program's lunar surface exploration. Photo credit: (NASA/Aubrey Gemignani)

European astronaut and professor, Institute of Space Systems, Reinhold Ewald, speaks during an astronaut panel discussion at the 70th International Astronautical Congress, Friday, Oct. 25, 2019, at the Walter E. Washington Convention Center in Washington. Photo credit: (NASA/Aubrey Gemignani)

NASA Administrator Jim Bridenstine, right, signs a joint statement with the Hellenic Space Agency (HSA) CEO, Dr. Georgios Mantzouris, at the Space Symposium, Monday, April 8, 2019 in Colorado Springs, Colorado. Dr. Mantzouris expressed a desire to remain open to opportunities for collaboration, both through Greece’s contributions to the European Space Agency, of which it has been a member since 2005, and bilaterally. Photo Credit: (NASA/Aubrey Gemignani)

NASA Administrator Jim Bridenstine gives keynote remarks at the Space Symposium, Tuesday, April 9, 2019, at Broadmoor Hall in Colorado Springs, Colorado. Representatives from the space industry, military, and news media were in attendance. Photo credit: (NASA/Aubrey Gemignani)

A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket carrying the company's Crew Dragon spacecraft is launched on NASA’s SpaceX Crew-3 mission to the International Space Station with NASA astronauts Raja Chari, Tom Marshburn, Kayla Barron, and ESA (European Space Agency) astronaut Matthias Maurer onboard, Wednesday, Nov. 10, 2021, at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida. NASA’s SpaceX Crew-3 mission is the third 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. Chari, Marshburn, Barron, Maurer launched at 9:03 p.m. EST from Launch Complex 39A at the Kennedy Space Center to begin a six month mission onboard the orbital outpost. Photo Credit: (NASA/Aubrey Gemignani)

Actor John Cho recites a poem during the "National Symphony Orchestra Pops: Space, the Next Frontier" event celebrating NASA's 60th Anniversary, Friday, June 1, 2018 at the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts in Washington. The event featured music inspired by space including artists will.i.am, Grace Potter, Coheed & Cambria, John Cho, and guest Nick Sagan, son of Carl Sagan. Photo Credit: (NASA/Aubrey Gemignani)

NASA Associate Administrator for Diversity and Equal Opportunity, Steve Shih, provides closing remarks after a panel discussion with NASA's four female center directors: Dr. Marla Peréz-Davis of Glenn Research Center, Vanessa Wyche of Johnson Space Center, Janet Petro of Kennedy Space Center, and Jody Singer of Marshall Space Flight Center, during the "DirectHERS" - Launching Through the Glass Ceiling event, Tuesday, June 7, 2022, at the Mary W. Jackson NASA Headquarters Building in Washington. Photo Credit: (NASA/Aubrey Gemignani)

Fans play corn hole in the NASA Experience Zone at an NFL game between the Pittsburgh Steelers and the Atlanta Falcons at Acrisure Stadium, Sunday, Sept. 13, 2026, in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. NASA’s engagement at NFL games is part of the agency's Inspiration Tour, aimed at strengthening connections between NASA and its partners and showcasing innovation in air and space in the lead up to the MAX POWER aerospace technology expo and airshow at the agency's Kennedy Space Center in early November. Photo Credit: (NASA/Aubrey Gemignani)

NASA astronaut Reid Wiseman, Artemis II commander provides remarks during an event at the Russell Senate Office Building, Tuesday, May 12, 2026, in Washington. NASA’s Artemis II mission took Wiseman, NASA astronaut Christina Koch, Artemis II mission specialist; NASA astronaut Victor Glover, Artemis II pilot; and CSA (Canadian Space Agency) astronaut Jeremy Hansen, Artemis II mission specialist, on a nearly 10-day journey around the Moon and back to Earth in April 2026. Photo Credit: (NASA/Aubrey Gemignani)

Peter Coen, project manager, Commercial Supersonics Technology Project, Langley Research Center, NASA, center, speaks on a panel with Peter Iosifidis, Lockheed Martin, left, and Dr. Ed Waggoner, NASA, right, at a briefing on the Low Boom Flight Demonstrator, Tuesday, April 3, 2018 at NASA Headquarters in Washington. This new experimental aircraft will cut cross country travel times in half by flying faster than the speed of sound without creating a sonic boom, enabling travel from New York to Los Angeles in two hours. Photo Credit: (NASA/Aubrey Gemignani)

General Thomas Patten Stafford, former NASA astronaut, Air Force officer and test pilot speaks at an event where he received the General James E. Hill Lifetime Achievement Award, at the Space Symposium, Tuesday, April 9, 2019, at Broadmoor Hall in Colorado Springs, Colorado. Former and current NASA Administrators were in attendance. Photo credit: (NASA/Aubrey Gemignani)

NASA Administrator Jim Bridenstine, left, speaks to press with SpaceX Chief Engineer Elon Musk, second from left, NASA astronaut Doug Hurley, second from right, and NASA astronaut Bob Behnken, at SpaceX Headquarters, Thursday, Oct. 10, 2019 in Hawthorne, CA. Photo credit: (NASA/Aubrey Gemignani)

NASA astronauts Don Pettit and Nick Hague listen to a question about their time onboard the International Space Station as part of Expedition 72, Wednesday, Sept. 17, 2025, during a Silver Snoopy award presentation event at NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Md. Photo Credit: (NASA/Aubrey Gemignani)

A young audience member asks the panel a question during a discussion on improving air quality for health in space and on Earth, at a pop-up makerspace hosted by Future Engineers with support from NASA and The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), at the Steven F. Udvar-Hazy Center, Thursday, September 21, 2017 in Chantilly, Virginia. Participants were able to create digital 3D models using Autodesk Tinkercad and watch objects being printed with Makerbot 3D printers. Photo Credit: (NASA/Aubrey Gemignani)

Expedition 41 Flight Engineer Elena Serova of the Russian Federal Space Agency (Roscosmos) is helped up after her Russian Sokol suit was pressure checked in preparation for her launch aboard the Soyuz TMA-14M spacecraft on Thursday, Sept. 25, 2014, at the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Baikonur, Kazakhstan. Launch of the Soyuz rocket is scheduled for the early hours of Sept. 26 (Kazakhstan time) and will carry Serova and fellow crewmates, Soyuz Commander Alexander Samokutyaev of Roscosmos and Flight Engineer Barry Wilmore of NASA, into orbit to begin their five and a half month mission on the International Space Station. 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/Aubrey Gemignani)

NASA Administrator Bill Nelson provides remarks during a media briefing to discuss the findings from an unidentified anomalous phenomena (UAP) independent study team, Thursday, Sept. 14, 2023, at the Mary W. Jackson NASA Headquarters building in Washington. The UAP independent study team, commissioned in 2022, is a counsel of 16 community experts across diverse areas on matters relevant to potential methods of study for unidentified anomalous phenomena. NASA published the team’s full report online, which aims to inform about what possible data could be collected in the future to shed light on the nature and origin of UAP. Photo Credit: (NASA/Aubrey Gemignani)

NASA’s Artemis II Space Launch System (SLS) rocket and Orion spacecraft are seen at sunset at Launch Complex 39B, Tuesday, March 31, 2026, at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida. The Artemis II test flight will take Commander Reid Wiseman, Pilot Victor Glover, and Mission Specialist Christina Koch from NASA, and Mission Specialist Jeremy Hansen from the CSA (Canadian Space Agency), around the Moon and back to Earth with launch opportunities beginning in April 2026. Photo Credit: (NASA/Aubrey Gemignani)

Blue Origin Human Landing System Program Manager, John Couluris, is seen on the monitor answering a question during an event announcing Blue Origin as the company selected to develop a sustainable human landing system for the Artemis V Moon mission, Friday, May 19, 2023 at the Mary W. Jackson NASA Headquarters building in Washington. The human landing system will take astronauts to and from Gateway in lunar orbit to the surface and back to the lunar space station as part of NASA’s return to the Moon for science, exploration, and inspiration. Photo Credit: (NASA/Aubrey Gemignani)

A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket carrying the company's Crew Dragon spacecraft is launched on NASA’s SpaceX Crew-4 mission to the International Space Station with NASA astronauts Kjell Lindgren, Robert Hines, Jessica Watkins, and ESA (European Space Agency) astronaut Samantha Cristoforetti onboard, Wednesday, April 27, 2022, at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida. NASA’s SpaceX Crew-4 mission is the fourth 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. Lindgren, Hines, Watkins, and Cristoforetti launched at 3:52 a.m. ET from Launch Complex 39A at the Kennedy Space Center to begin a six month mission onboard the orbital outpost. Photo Credit: (NASA/Aubrey Gemignani)

Assistant Director for Space Policy, White House Office of Science and Technology Policy, Jinni Meehan, provides closing remarks at the Microgravity Science Summit at the Eisenhower Executive Office Building, Monday, Dec. 13, 2024 in Washington. Photo Credit: (NASA/Aubrey Gemignani)

Diana Trujillo, NASA Human Spaceflight Director, right, speaks on a panel with, from left to right, moderator Trina Espinoza, Science Communicator, Hispanic Heritage Foundation, Ingrid Padilla, Professor in Environmental and Water Resources Engineering, University of Puerto Rico, Mayaguez (UPRM), and Frank Avila, Deputy Director, Source Operations, National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency (NGA), at a White House Hispanic Heritage month event titled “Soaring Together: Inspiring the Next Generation of Space Leaders” at the Eisenhower Executive Office Building, Monday, Sept. 30, 2024 in Washington. Photo Credit: (NASA/Aubrey Gemignani)

NASA astronaut Tracy Caldwell Dyson, left, moderates a panel discussion with NASA Administrator Jim Bridenstine, NASA Associate Administrator for the Human Exploration and Operations Mission Directorate, Bill Gerstenmaier, and NASA Deputy Associate Administrator for Exploration, Steve Clarke at the "Future of Space" STEM event, Monday, April 29, 2019 at NASA Headquarters in Washington, where college students were able to ask the panelists questions as well as speak with two astronauts currently on the International Space Station, Nick Hague and Christina Koch. Photo Credit: (NASA/Aubrey Gemignani)

Chirag Parikh, Deputy Assistant to the President and Executive Secretary of the National Space Council and family pose for a photo at a White House Halloween themed event titled, “Hallo-READ!” on Wednesday, Oct. 30, 2024 on the south lawn of the White House in Washington. Photo Credit: (NASA/Aubrey Gemignani)

NASA Administrator Jared Isaacman, left, and Goddard Space Flight Center director Jamie Dunn listen to a comment by an audience member during an event held to celebrate the launch of the Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope, Tuesday, Sept. 1, 2026, at NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland. Photo Credit: (NASA/Aubrey Gemignani)

Bill Nye, Chief Executive Officer, The Planetary Society, speaks during a session titled, “Europa Clipper: Making a Mission to Understand Our Place in the Universe” at the 70th International Astronautical Congress, Wednesday, Oct. 23, 2019 at the Walter E. Washington Convention Center in Washington. Photo credit: (NASA/Aubrey Gemignani)

NASA astronaut Serena Auñón-Chancellor gives a brief on the current NASA astronaut corps at a bipartisan Congressional Caucus for Women’s Issues event on NASA’s Artemis lunar exploration program, Wednesday, September 11, 2019 at the Rayburn House Office Building in Washington. Photo Credit: (NASA/Aubrey Gemignani)

The Soyuz MS-04 rocket launches from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan on Thursday, April 20, 2017 Baikonur time carrying Expedition 51 Soyuz Commander Fyodor Yurchikhin of Roscosmos and Flight Engineer Jack Fischer of NASA into orbit to begin their four and a half month mission on the International Space Station. (Photo Credit: NASA/Aubrey Gemignani)

Carl Sagan's son, Nick Sagan, left, speaks at the "National Symphony Orchestra Pops: Space, the Next Frontier" event celebrating NASA's 60th Anniversary, Friday, June 1, 2018 at the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts in Washington. The event featured music inspired by space including artists will.i.am, Grace Potter, Coheed & Cambria, John Cho, and guest Nick Sagan. Photo Credit: (NASA/Aubrey Gemignani)

NASA Deputy Administrator, Pam Melroy, left, poses for a photo with the Federal Government Coordinator of German Aerospace Policy, Dr. Anna Christmann, Thursday, March 31, 2022, at NASA Headquarters in Washington DC. Photo Credit: (NASA/Aubrey Gemignani)

NASA astronaut Shane Kimbrough gives a hand sign after he was helped out of the SpaceX Crew Dragon Endeavour spacecraft onboard the SpaceX GO Navigator recovery ship after he and NASA astronaut Megan McArthur, Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) astronaut Aki Hoshide, and ESA (European Space Agency) astronaut Thomas Pesquet landed in the Gulf of Mexico off the coast of Pensacola, Florida, Monday, Nov. 8, 2021. NASA’s SpaceX Crew-2 mission is the second operational 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. Photo Credit: (NASA/Aubrey Gemignani)

NASA Administrator Bill Nelson provides remarks during a media briefing to discuss the findings from an unidentified anomalous phenomena (UAP) independent study team, Thursday, Sept. 14, 2023, at the Mary W. Jackson NASA Headquarters building in Washington. The UAP independent study team, commissioned in 2022, is a counsel of 16 community experts across diverse areas on matters relevant to potential methods of study for unidentified anomalous phenomena. NASA published the team’s full report online, which aims to inform about what possible data could be collected in the future to shed light on the nature and origin of UAP. Photo Credit: (NASA/Aubrey Gemignani)

U.S. President Joe Biden and First Lady Jill Biden dressed in a panda costume, hand out candy at a White House Halloween themed event titled, “Hallo-READ!” on Wednesday, Oct. 30, 2024 on the south lawn of the White House in Washington. Photo Credit: (NASA/Aubrey Gemignani)

NASA Technical Group Supervisor for Sequence Planning and Execution and Tactical Mission Lead for the Mars Perseverance rover, Diana Trujillo, speaks to students at Rolling Terrace Elementary School, Monday, March 13, 2023, in Takoma Park, Maryland. Photo Credit: (NASA/Aubrey Gemignani)

David Glenn, son of former astronaut and U.S. Senator John Glenn receives the folded American flag from the Commandant of the U.S. Marine Corps, General Robert B. Neller, during a graveside interment ceremony at Arlington National Cemetery on Thursday, April 6, 2017 in Virginia. He was the first American to orbit Earth on Feb. 20, 1962, in a five-hour flight aboard the Friendship 7 spacecraft. In 1998, Glenn broke another record by returning to space at the age of 77 on the Space Shuttle Discovery. Photo Credit: (NASA/Aubrey Gemignani)

NASA astronaut Bob Behnken answers a question from the media in front of the Crew Dragon that is being prepared for the Demo-2 mission, at SpaceX Headquarters, Thursday, Oct. 10, 2019 in Hawthorne, CA. Behnken and NASA astronaut Doug Hurley are assigned to fly onboard Crew Dragon for the Demo-2 mission.Photo credit: (NASA/Aubrey Gemignani)

Expedition 51 prime crew members, Flight Engineer Jack Fischer of NASA, left, and Soyuz Commander Fyodor Yurchikhin of Roscosmos, second from left, pose for a photo with Expedition 51 back up crew members, Soyuz Commander Sergey Ryazanskiy of Roscosmos, second from right, and Flight Engineer Randy Bresnik of NASA, right, at the conclusion of the press conference held at the Cosmonaut Hotel in Baikonur, Kazakhstan on Wednesday, April 19, 2017. The mission is set to launch April 20 from the Baikonur Cosmodrome. Photo Credit: (NASA/Aubrey Gemignani)

The Northrop Grumman Antares rocket, with Cygnus resupply spacecraft onboard, launches from Pad-0A, Saturday, Feb. 15, 2020 at NASA's Wallops Flight Facility in Virginia. Northrop Grumman's 13th contracted cargo resupply mission for NASA to the International Space Station will deliver more than 7,500 pounds of science and research, crew supplies and vehicle hardware to the orbital laboratory and its crew. Photo Credit: (NASA/Aubrey Gemignani)

Artemis II Commander, NASA astronaut Reid Wiseman provides remarks at a Moon tree dedication ceremony, Tuesday, June 4, 2024 at the United States Capitol in Washington. The American Sweetgum tree planted on the southwestern side of the Capitol, was grown from a seed that was flown around the Moon during the Artemis I mission. Photo Credit: (NASA/Aubrey Gemignani)

DC area students participate in a Minecraft Artemis demonstration during Space Education Day, Tuesday, June 20, 2023, at the Microsoft Technology Center in Arlington, Va. Microsoft hosted the event to showcase the collaboration, early successes, and future plans for high quality student engagement through activities that combined space content and technologies like artificial intelligence and cloud computing. Photo Credit: (NASA/Aubrey Gemignani)

NASA Administrator Jim Bridenstine speaks during a multilateral meeting of the heads of space agencies at the 70th International Astronautical Congress, Tuesday, Oct. 22, 2019 in Washington. Photo Credit: (NASA/Aubrey Gemignani)

Expedition 58 Flight Engineer Anne McClain of NASA performs the traditional door signing at the Cosmonaut Hotel prior to departing the hotel for launch in a Soyuz rocket with fellow crewmates, Soyuz Commander Oleg Kononenko of Roscosmos, and Flight Engineer David Saint-Jacques of the Canadian Space Agency (CSA), Monday, Dec. 3, 2018, in Baikonur, Kazakhstan. Launch of the Soyuz rocket is scheduled for the same day and will carry McClain, Kononenko, and Saint-Jacques into orbit to begin their six and a half month mission on the International Space Station. Photo Credit: (NASA/Aubrey Gemignani)

Aya Collins, director of the engagement division of NASA’s Office of Communications, moderates a discussion with NASA astronauts Mike Fincke and Zena Cardman and JAXA (Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency) astronaut Kimiya Yui, Monday, June 1, 2026 at the Mary W. Jackson NASA Headquarters building in Washington. Fincke, Cardman, and Yui served as part of Expeditions 73 and 74 onboard the International Space Station. Photo Credit: (NASA/Aubrey Gemignani)

U.S. Ambassador to Japan, Rahm Emanuel, delivers remarks after U.S. Secretary of State, Antony Blinken and Minister for Foreign Affairs of Japan, The Honorable Hayashi Yoshimasa signed an agreement that builds on a long history of collaboration in space exploration between the U.S. and Japan, Friday, Jan. 13, 2023, at the Mary W. Jackson NASA Headquarters building in Washington. “The Framework Agreement Between the Government of Japan and the Government of the United States of America for Cooperation in Space Exploration and Use of Outer Space, Including the Moon and Other Celestial Bodies, For Peaceful Purposes” covers joint activities including space science, Earth science, space operations and exploration, aeronautical science and technology, space technology, space transportation, and safety and mission assurance, among others. Photo Credit: (NASA/Aubrey Gemignani)

NASA astronaut Jessica Watkins gives a presentation about her time in space as part of Expeditions 67 and 68, Friday, March 31, 2023, at Howard University in Washington. Photo Credit: (NASA/Aubrey Gemignani)

Expedition 51 Flight Engineer Jack Fischer of NASA speaks with his family after having his Russian Sokol suit pressure checked in preparation for launch onboard the Soyuz MS-04 spacecraft on Thursday, April 20, 2017 at the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan. The Soyuz spacecraft with Fischer and Soyuz Commander Fyodor Yurchikhin of Roscosmos is scheduled to launch at 1:13pm Baikonur time on April 20. Photo Credit: (NASA/Aubrey Gemignani)

Expedition 58 Soyuz Commander Oleg Kononenko of Roscosmos is helped up after completing his Russian Sokol suit pressure check in preparation for his launch aboard the Soyuz MS-11 spacecraft on Monday, Dec. 3, 2018, at the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan. Launch of the Soyuz rocket is scheduled for the same day and will carry Kononenko, 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)

Former astronaut Alvin Drew provides remarks during the Earth Information Center Student Engagement event at the Mary W. Jackson NASA Headquarters building, Friday, Sept. 29, 2023, in Washington. Photo Credit: (NASA/Aubrey Gemignani)

Expedition 51 prime crew members, Flight Engineer Jack Fischer of NASA, left, and Soyuz Commander Fyodor Yurchikhin of Roscosmos, second left, are seen with Expedition 51 back up crew members, Soyuz Commander Sergey Ryazanskiy of Roscosmos, second from right, and Flight Engineer Randy Bresnik of NASA, right at the State Commission meeting to approve the Soyuz launch of Expedition 51 to the International Space Station in Baikonur, Kazakhstan on Wednesday, April 19, 2017. The mission is set to launch April 20 from the Baikonur Cosmodrome. Photo Credit: (NASA/Aubrey Gemignani)

Members of the National Space Council are seen under space shuttle Discovery during the council's sixth meeting, Tuesday, Aug. 20, 2019 at the Smithsonian National Air and Space Museum's Steven F. Udvar-Hazy Center in Chantilly, Va. Chaired by Vice President Mike Pence, the council's role is to advise the President regarding national space policy and strategy, and review the nation's long-range goals for space activities. Photo Credit: (NASA/Aubrey Gemignani)

Former astronaut and current director of NASA’s Glenn Research Center, Dr. Janet Kavandi, provides remarks at a bipartisan Congressional Caucus for Women’s Issues briefing on NASA’s Artemis lunar exploration program, Wednesday, September 11, 2019 at the Rayburn House Office Building in Washington. Photo Credit: (NASA/Aubrey Gemignani)

Director of Glenn Research Center, Dr. Marla Peréz-Davis speaks on a panel with NASA's three other female center directors: Janet Petro of Kennedy Space Center, Vanessa Wyche of Johnson Space Center, and Jody Singer of Marshall Space Flight Center, moderated by NASA General Counsel, Sumara Thompson-King, left, during the "DirectHERS" - Launching Through the Glass Ceiling event, Tuesday, June 7, 2022, at the Mary W. Jackson NASA Headquarters Building in Washington. Photo Credit: (NASA/Aubrey Gemignani)

NASA Astronaut Marcos Berrios speaks at a staff engagement event that took place during a White House Hispanic Heritage month event titled “Soaring Together: Inspiring the Next Generation of Space Leaders” at the Eisenhower Executive Office Building, Monday, Sept. 30, 2024 in Washington. Photo Credit: (NASA/Aubrey Gemignani)

General Thomas Patten Stafford, former NASA astronaut, Air Force officer and test pilot speaks at an event where he received the General James E. Hill Lifetime Achievement Award, at the Space Symposium, Tuesday, April 9, 2019, at Broadmoor Hall in Colorado Springs, Colorado. Former and current NASA Administrators were in attendance. Photo credit: (NASA/Aubrey Gemignani)

NASA Associate Administrator for the Space Operations Mission Directorate (SpaceOps), Kathy Lueders, speaks during a NASA town hall to discuss the reorganization of the Human Exploration and Operations Mission Directorate into two mission directorates: SpaceOps and the Exploration Systems Development Mission Directorate (ESDMD), Tuesday, Sept. 21, 2021 at the Mary W. Jackson NASA Headquarters building in Washington. As head of SpaceOps, Kathy Lueders will lead launch and space operations including the International Space Station, the commercialization of low-Earth orbit, and eventually operations on and around the Moon. Associate Administrator of ESDMD, Jim Free, will lead efforts to define and manage systems development for programs critical to NASA’s Artemis program and the planning of NASA’s Moon to Mars exploration. Photo Credit: (NASA/Aubrey Gemignani)

“I was born in India soon after we got independence from the British. So we were just beginning to get access to education. My mother was very keen that her daughters get an education. She was a big motivating force behind my interest in science. Since I was really little, she would say, ‘This daughter of mine is going to be a scientist.’ “And I loved nature. In those days, the monsoon would make India come to life with flowers and creepy-crawlies and all kinds of little creatures. I would just go out, eagerly looking for new forms of life. I was always curious. And I remember the night sky — just trying to count all the stars. We didn’t have electricity so it was very dark. You could see the Milky Way, it was so clear. “When Sputnik was launched, it came out in the newspaper that you would be able to see it pass overhead at 5 in the morning. And my grandmother woke up everyone — the entire household — to see it. There was a big crowd in the backyard to watch Sputnik go by. "Then, Yuri Gagarin made a tour of India. He came to our city — Lucknow — and there was a reception for him. My mother got invitations for all of us to see the cosmonaut. We were just little kids. We ran right to the stage — there was no security then — and said hello to him. He gave us little booklets and autographs. It was a big inspiration for me. I remember just staring at that booklet he gave me. I kept it for years.” NASA Program Scientist, Dr. Hashima Hasan, poses for a portrait in her backyard, while working from home during the COVID-19 pandemic, Monday, July 6, 2020 in Maryland. Hasan currently works at NASA Headquarters as a program scientist on the agency’s Nuclear Spectroscopic Telescope Array (NuSTAR) spacecraft, the Keck Observatory, and the NASA Astrophysics Archives, and is the deputy program scientist for NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope. Photo Credit: (NASA/Aubrey Gemignani)

NASA Administrator Jim Bridenstine testifies during a House Committee on Science, Space, and Technology hearing to review the Fiscal Year 2020 budget request for the National Aeronautics and Space Administration, Tuesday, April 2, 2019 at the Rayburn House Office Building in Washington. Photo Credit: (NASA/Aubrey Gemignani)

NASA Administrator Jared Isaacman testifies during a hearing held by the Subcommittee on Commerce, Justice, Science, and Related Agencies to review NASA’s Fiscal Year 2027 budget request, Tuesday, April 28, 2026, at the Dirksen Senate Office Building in Washington. Photo Credit: (NASA/Aubrey Gemignani)

NASA astronauts Joe Acaba, left, and Mark Vande Hei, right, speak about their time onboard the International Space Station, Friday, June 15, 2018 at the DACOR Bacon House in Washington. The house is an early nineteenth century home and the current headquarters of DACOR Foundation, an organization of foreign affairs professionals. Photo Credit: (NASA/Aubrey Gemignani)

NASA Deputy Administrator Pam Melroy provides remarks at a Moon tree dedication ceremony, Tuesday, June 4, 2024 at the United States Capitol in Washington. The American Sweetgum tree planted on the southwestern side of the Capitol, was grown from a seed that was flown around the Moon during the Artemis I mission. Photo Credit: (NASA/Aubrey Gemignani)

Vice President Mike Pence addresses NASA employees, Thursday, July 6, 2017, at the Vehicle Assembly Building at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center (KSC) in Cape Canaveral, Florida. The Vice President thanked employees for advancing American leadership in space, before going on a tour of the center that highlighted the public-private partnerships at KSC, as both NASA and commercial companies prepare to launch American astronauts from the multi-user spaceport. Photo Credit: (NASA/Aubrey Gemignani)

NASA astronaut Randy Bresnik, left, and ESA astronaut Paolo Nespoli speak about their time onboard the International Space Station during expeditions 52/53, Friday, May 11, 2018 at the Washington School for Girls in Washington. Photo Credit: (NASA/Aubrey Gemignani)

NASA Headquarters eclipse program manager, Kelly Korreck, speaks during a media briefing to discuss the upcoming solar eclipse, Tuesday, March 26, 2024 at the Mary W. Jackson NASA Headquarters building in Washington. A total solar eclipse will sweep across a narrow portion of the North American continent from Mexico’s Pacific coast to the Atlantic coast of Newfoundland, Canada on April 8, 2024. A partial solar eclipse will be visible across the entire North American continent along with parts of Central America and Europe. Photo Credit: (NASA/Aubrey Gemignani)

The Northrop Grumman Antares rocket is lowered into a horizontal position to refresh and reload the final cargo into the Cygnus resupply spacecraft, Wednesday, Feb. 12, 2020, at launch Pad-0A of NASA's Wallops Flight Facility in Virginia. Northrop Grumman’s 13th contracted cargo resupply mission with NASA to the International Space Station will deliver more than 7,500 pounds of science and research, crew supplies and vehicle hardware to the orbital laboratory and its crew. Photo Credit: (NASA/Aubrey Gemignani)

Acting NASA Associate Administrator for Human Exploration and Operations, Ken Bowersox, reacts during a Space and Aeronautics Subcommittee of the House Science, Space, and Technology Committee hearing titled, “Developing Core Capabilities for Deep Space Exploration: An Update on NASA's SLS, Orion, and Exploration Ground Systems," Wednesday, September 18, 2019 at the Rayburn House Office Building in Washington. Photo Credit: (NASA/Aubrey Gemignani)

Fans learn about the X-59 supersonic aircraft at the NASA Experience Zone at an NFL game between the Pittsburgh Steelers and the Atlanta Falcons at Acrisure Stadium, Sunday, Sept. 13, 2026, in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. NASA’s engagement at NFL games is part of the agency's Inspiration Tour, aimed at strengthening connections between NASA and its partners and showcasing innovation in air and space in the lead up to the MAX POWER aerospace technology expo and airshow at the agency's Kennedy Space Center in early November. Photo Credit: (NASA/Aubrey Gemignani)

NASA Administrator Jared Isaacman testifies during a hearing held by the Subcommittee on Commerce, Justice, Science, and Related Agencies to review NASA’s Fiscal Year 2027 budget request, Tuesday, April 28, 2026, at the Dirksen Senate Office Building in Washington. Photo Credit: (NASA/Aubrey Gemignani)

The nearly full Moon is seen as it rises from The Observatory at America’s Square in Washington, Tuesday, Oct. 19, 2021. Photo Credit: (NASA/Aubrey Gemignani)

NASA astronaut Jack Fischer speaks about his time onboard the International Space Station (ISS) during Expeditions 51/52, Friday, Nov. 3, 2017 at Smithsonian's National Air and Space Museum in Washington. During Expedition 52, Fischer completed hundreds of scientific experiments and two spacewalks, and concluded his 136-day mission when he landed in a remote area near the town of Zhezkazgan, Kazakhstan in September 2017. Photo Credit: (NASA/Aubrey Gemignani)

The main stage at the Apollo 11 50th Anniversary celebration is seen on the National Mall, Thursday, July 18, 2019 in Washington. Apollo 11 was the first mission to land astronauts on the Moon and launched on July 16, 1969 with astronauts Neil Armstrong, Michael Collins, and Buzz Aldrin. Photo Credit: (NASA/Aubrey Gemignani)

NASA astronaut Megan McArthur gives a thumbs up after being helped out of the SpaceX Crew Dragon Endeavour spacecraft onboard the SpaceX GO Navigator recovery ship after she and NASA astronaut Shane Kimbrough, Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) astronaut Aki Hoshide, and ESA (European Space Agency) astronaut Thomas Pesquet landed in the Gulf of Mexico off the coast of Pensacola, Florida, Monday, Nov. 8, 2021. NASA’s SpaceX Crew-2 mission is the second operational 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. Photo Credit: (NASA/Aubrey Gemignani)

Lori Glaze, Director of the Planetary Science Division of NASA's Science Mission Directorate, second from left, asks Alex Mather, the student whose submission, Perseverance, was chosen as the official name of the Mars 2020 rover, a question, Thursday, March 5, 2020, at Lake Braddock Secondary School in Burke, Va. The final selection of the new name was made by Associate Administrator of NASA's Science Mission Directorate, Thomas Zurbuchen, following a nationwide naming contest conducted in 2019 that drew more than 28,000 essays by K-12 students from every U.S. state and territory. Perseverance is currently at NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida being prepared for launch this summer. Photo Credit: (NASA/Aubrey Gemignani)

Eirik Olsen, of Seattle, Washington, plays giant Jenga while waiting to watch the total solar eclipse in Madras, Oregon on Saturday, August 19, 2017. The eclipse will be sweeping across a narrow portion of the contiguous United States from Lincoln Beach, Oregon to Charleston, South Carolina on August 21. A partial solar eclipse will be visible across the entire North American continent along with parts of South America, Africa, and Europe. Photo Credit: (NASA/Aubrey Gemignani)

Expedition 69 NASA astronaut Stephen Bowen is seen as he and fellow crewmates NASA astronauts Warren Hoburg and Frank Rubio, and UAE (United Arab Emirates) astronaut Sultan Alneyadi, right, meet with NASA Deputy Administrator Pam Melroy, and NASA Administrator Bill Nelson, Tuesday, March 19, 2024 at the Mary W. Jackson NASA Headquarters building in Washington. Bowen, Hoburg, and Alneyadi spent 186 days aboard the International Space Station as part of Expedition 69; while Rubio set a new record for the longest single spaceflight by a U.S. astronaut, spending 371 days in orbit on an extended mission spanning Expeditions 68 and 69. Photo Credit: (NASA/Aubrey Gemignani)

Olivia Lupie, Hubble Space Telescope instrument systems manager at NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center, speaks about the history of the Hubble Space Telescope’s partnerships during an event titled “Beyond the Deep Field: Hubble’s Legacy and the Future of Cosmic Observation,” Friday, June 5, 2026, at the Mary W. Jackson NASA Headquarters building in Washington. Photo Credit: (NASA/Aubrey Gemignani)

Acting NASA Administrator, Steve Jurczyk, speaks to media after ESA (European Space Agency) astronaut Thomas Pesquet, left, NASA astronauts Megan McArthur, second from left, and Shane Kimbrough, second from right, and Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) astronaut Akihiko Hoshide, arrived at the Launch and Landing Facility at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center ahead of SpaceX’s Crew-2 mission, Friday, April 16, 2021, in Florida. NASA’s SpaceX Crew-2 mission is the second operational 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. Kimbrough, McArthur, Pesquet, and Hoshide are scheduled to launch at 6:11 a.m. ET on Thursday, April 22, from Launch Complex 39A at the Kennedy Space Center. Photo Credit: (NASA/Aubrey Gemignani)

Colombian Vice President and Foreign Minister, Marta Lucía Ramírez, left, greets NASA Deputy Administrator Pam Melroy before an event where she will sign the Artemis Accords, Tuesday, May 10, 2022, at NASA Headquarters in Washington DC. Colombia is the nineteenth country to sign the Artemis Accords, which establish a practical set of principles to guide space exploration cooperation among nations participating in NASA’s Artemis program. Photo Credit: (NASA/Aubrey Gemignani)

NASA Administrator Jared Isaacman poses for a photo with NASA astronauts Zena Cardman, Mike Fincke, and JAXA (Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency) astronaut Kimiya Yui, Monday, June 1, 2026, at the Mary W. Jackson NASA Headquarters building in Washington. Cardman, Fincke, and Yui served as part of Expeditions 73 and 74 onboard the International Space Station. Photo Credit: (NASA/Aubrey Gemignani)

NASA Deputy Associate Administrator for NASA’s Office of STEM Engagement, Kris Brown, second from right, and U.S. Department of Education Deputy Secretary Cindy Marten, second from left, watch as a student operates a robot during a STEM event to kickoff the 21st Century Community Learning Centers NASA and U.S. Department of Education partnership, Monday, Sept. 23, 2024 at Wheatley Education Campus (EC) in Washington. Students engaged in NASA hands-on activities and an engineering design challenge. Photo Credit: (NASA/Aubrey Gemignani)

Audience members are seen during DEVELOP Day, Tuesday, August 6, 2024, at the Mary W. Jackson NASA Headquarters building in Washington. Every summer early career researchers from NASA’s DEVELOP National Program come to NASA Headquarters and present their research projects. DEVELOP is a training and development program where early career researchers work on Earth science projects, mentored by science advisors from NASA and partner agencies, and provide research results to local communities. Photo Credit: (NASA/Aubrey Gemignani)

Roscosmos cosmonaut and executive director for piloted spaceflights, Sergey Krikalev speaks to former NASA Administrator and astronaut, Charlie Bolden during an astronaut and cosmonaut panel discussion at the 70th International Astronautical Congress, Friday, Oct. 25, 2019 at the Walter E. Washington Convention Center in Washington. Photo credit: (NASA/Aubrey Gemignani)

NASA Administrator Jim Bridenstine gives keynote remarks at the Challenger Center Annual Conference, Wednesday, August 14, 2019 at the Lockheed Martin Global Vision Center in Arlington, VA. Photo Credit: (NASA/Aubrey Gemignani)

Students react as SpaceX Crew-1 NASA astronauts, from left to right, Shannon Walker, Victor Glover, Mike Hopkins, and Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) astronaut Soichi Noguchi answer questions during a live question and answer session in the Oprah Winfrey Theater at the National Museum of African American History and Culture, Tuesday, Nov. 16, 2021, in Washington. Hopkins, Glover, Walker, and Noguchi launched on the first crew rotation mission to the International Space Station for SpaceX’s Falcon 9 and Crew Dragon spacecraft as part of the agency’s Commercial Crew Program and spent 168 days in space across Expeditions 64 and 65. Photo Credit: (NASA/Aubrey Gemignani)

From left to right, NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center Webb Deputy Observatory Project Scientist, Erin Smith, NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center Webb Optical Telescope Element Manager, Lee Feinberg, Smithsonian Institution Under Secretary for Service and Research, Ellen Stofan, NASA Associate Administrator and former astronaut Bob Cabana, United States Postal Service Vice Chairman, Board of Governors, Anton Hajjar, NASA public affairs specialist Alice Fisher, National Postal Museum Deputy Director, Toby Mensforth, and Lisa Whitehead, USPS, applaud after unveiling the United States Postal Service’s new stamp celebrating NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) at the first-day-of-issue event on Thursday, Sept. 8, 2022, at the Smithsonian’s National Postal Museum in Washington. The stamp, which features an illustration of the observatory, honors Webb’s mission to explore the unknown in our universe – solving mysteries in our solar system, looking beyond to distant worlds around other stars, and probing the structures and origins of our universe and our place in it. Photo Credit: (NASA/Aubrey Gemignani)

The Soyuz rocket is prepared to be rolled out by train to the launch pad on Friday, Nov. 21, 2014 at the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan. The Soyuz TMA-15M spacecraft, scheduled to launch Nov. 24, will carry Expedition 42 Soyuz Commander Anton Shkaplerov of the Russian Federal Space Agency (Roscosmos), Flight Engineer Terry Virts of NASA , and Flight Engineer Samantha Cristoforetti of the European Space Agency into orbit to begin their five and a half month mission on the International Space Station. Photo Credit: (NASA/Aubrey Gemignani)

A model of Orion is seen at the NASA exhibit during the 70th International Astronautical Congress, Friday, Oct. 25, 2019, at the Walter E. Washington Convention Center in Washington. Photo credit: (NASA/Aubrey Gemignani)

Monaco’s Minister of Foreign Affairs and Cooperation, Isabelle Berro-Amadeï, right, meets with NASA Administrator Bill Nelson, Thursday, June 22, 2023 at the Mary W. Jackson NASA Headquarters building in Washington. Photo Credit: (NASA/Aubrey Gemignani)

Former NASA astronaut Mary Cleave speaks during an astronaut panel discussion at the 70th International Astronautical Congress, Friday, Oct. 25, 2019, at the Walter E. Washington Convention Center in Washington. Photo credit: (NASA/Aubrey Gemignani)

Conductor Emil de Cou leads the National Symphony Orchestra during the "Space, the Next Frontier" event celebrating NASA's 60th Anniversary, Friday, June 1, 2018 at the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts in Washington. The event featured music inspired by space including artists will.i.am, Grace Potter, Coheed & Cambria, John Cho, and guest Nick Sagan, son of Carl Sagan. Photo Credit: (NASA/Aubrey Gemignani)

NASA Associate Administrator Bob Cabana speaks during the 2022 NASA Safety Stand-Down panel discussion, Thursday, Jan. 27, 2022, at the Mary W. Jackson NASA Headquarters building in Washington. The event followed the annual visit to Arlington National Cemetery where NASA leadership and family members and/or friends of the astronauts commemorate NASA’s Day of Remembrance and the sacrifices made to further exploration. Panelists included NASA Safety and Mission Assurance Chief Russ DeLoach, NASA Administrator Bill Nelson, NASA Deputy Administrator Pam Melroy, and NASA Associate Administrator Bob Cabana. Photo Credit: (NASA/Aubrey Gemignani)

Former NASA astronaut Leland Melvin, left, moderates a panel with, from left to right, Roscosmos cosmonaut and executive director for piloted spaceflights, Sergey Krikalev; former NASA astronaut Mary Cleave; former NASA Administrator and astronaut, Charlie Bolden; ESA (European Space Agency) astronaut, André Kuipers; and European astronaut and professor, Institute of Space Systems, Reinhold Ewald, during the 70th International Astronautical Congress, Friday, Oct. 25, 2019, at the Walter E. Washington Convention Center in Washington. Photo credit: (NASA/Aubrey Gemignani)

Program Scientist and Deputy Chief Technologist at NASA Headquarters, Roshanak Hakimzadeh, speaks during a presentation about the upcoming eclipse, Sunday, April 7, 2024 at the Butt-Holdsworth Memorial Library in Kerrville, Texas. On Monday, April 8, a total solar eclipse will sweep across a narrow portion of the North American continent from Mexico’s Pacific coast to the Atlantic coast of Newfoundland, Canada, while a partial solar eclipse will be visible across the entire North American continent along with parts of Central America and Europe. Photo Credit: (NASA/Aubrey Gemignani)

Cecelia Paparella provides remarks about her DEVELOP Project, Tuesday, August 6, 2024, at the Mary W. Jackson NASA Headquarters building in Washington. Every summer early career researchers from NASA’s DEVELOP National Program come to NASA Headquarters and present their research projects. DEVELOP is a training and development program where early career researchers work on Earth science projects, mentored by science advisors from NASA and partner agencies, and provide research results to local communities. Photo Credit: (NASA/Aubrey Gemignani)

NASA astronaut Zena Cardman presents NASA Administrator Jared Isaacman with a montage from Expeditions 73 and 74 while NASA astronauts Mike Fincke and JAXA (Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency) astronaut Kimiya Yui (not pictured) look on, Monday, June 1, 2026, at the Mary W. Jackson NASA Headquarters building in Washington. Fincke, Cardman, and Yui served as part of Expeditions 73 and 74 onboard the International Space Station. Photo Credit: (NASA/Aubrey Gemignani)

Teams monitor the progress of a Countdown Demonstration Test with Artemis II crewmembers NASA astronauts Reid Wiseman, commander; Victor Glover, pilot; Christina Koch, mission specialist; and CSA (Canadian Space Agency) astronaut Jeremy Hansen, mission specialist onboard their Orion spacecraft from Firing Room 2 of the Rocco A. Petrone Launch Control Center, Saturday, Dec. 20, 2025, at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida. For this operation, the Artemis II crew and launch teams are simulating the launch day timeline including suit-up, walkout, and spacecraft ingress and egress. Through the Artemis campaign, NASA will send astronauts to explore the Moon for scientific discovery, economic benefits, and to build the foundation for the first crewed missions to Mars, for the benefit of all. Photo Credit: (NASA/Aubrey Gemignani)

NASA astronauts Reid Wiseman, commander, (not pictured); Victor Glover, pilot (not pictured); Christina Koch, mission specialist; and CSA (Canadian Space Agency) astronaut Jeremy Hansen, mission specialist are seen as they depart the Neil A. Armstrong Operations and Checkout Building to board their Orion spacecraft atop NASA’s Space Launch System (SLS) rocket at Launch Complex 39B, Wednesday, April 1, 2026, at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida. NASA’s Artemis II mission will take Wiseman, Glover, Koch, and Hansen on a 10-day journey around the Moon and back aboard their Orion spacecraft from Launch Complex 39B, with a two hour launch window opening at 6:24pm. Photo Credit: (NASA/Aubrey Gemignani)

SpaceX Crew-1 NASA astronauts, from left, Victor Glover, Mike Hopkins, and Shannon Walker, present a montage from their mission to Col. Catherine Logan, commander of Joint Base Anacostia-Bolling (JBAB), Friday, Nov. 19, 2021, in Washington. Hopkins, Glover, Walker, and Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) astronaut Soichi Noguchi, launched on the first crew rotation mission to the International Space Station for SpaceX’s Falcon 9 and Crew Dragon spacecraft as part of the agency’s Commercial Crew Program and spent 168 days in space across Expeditions 64 and 65. Photo Credit: (NASA/Aubrey Gemignani)