Expedition 53 Commander Randy Bresnik of NASA, right, listens as NASA Interpreter Evgeny Sokol talks during a Karaganda Airport welcome ceremony in Kazakhstan on Thursday, Dec. 14, 2017. 2017. Bresnik, ESA (European Space Agency) astronaut Paolo Nespoli, and Roscosmos cosmonaut Sergey Ryazanskiy are returning after 139 days in space where they served as members of the Expedition 52 and 53 crews onboard the International Space Station. Photo Credit: (NASA/Bill Ingalls)

NASA astronaut Scott Tingle, center, listens, along with NASA Interpreter Evgeny Sokol, left, and NASA Flight Surgeon Rainer Effenhauser during a Karaganda Airport welcome ceremony in Kazakhstan on Sunday, June 3, 2018. Tingle, along with Roscosmos cosmonaut Anton Shkaplerov, and Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) Norishige Kanai are returning after 168 days in space where they served as members of the Expedition 54 and 55 crews onboard the International Space Station. Photo Credit: (NASA/Bill Ingalls)

NASA Director for Human Space Flight Programs, Russia, Chad Rowe, left, with the support of NASA Interpreter Evgeny Sokol, delivers his report during a meeting to discuss the readiness for the landing of Expedition 57 crew members Serena Auñón-Chancellor of NASA, Alexander Gerst of ESA (European Space Agency), and Sergey Prokopyev of Roscosmos, Tuesday, Dec. 18, 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)

NASA Deputy International Space Station Program Manager Dan Hartman, left, NASA Director for Human Space Flight Programs, Russia, Chad Rowe, and NASA Interpreter Evgeny Sokol, right, wait at the Zhezkazgan, Kazakhstan Airport to support the Soyuz landing of Expedition 55 crew members Anton Shkaplerov of Roscosmos, Scott Tingle of NASA, Norishige Kanai of the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) Sunday, June 3, 2018. Shkaplerov, Tingle, and Kanai are returning after 168 days in space where they served as members of the Expedition 54 and 55 crews onboard the International Space Station. Photo Credit: (NASA/Bill Ingalls)

NASA Director for Human Space Flight Programs, Russia, Chad Rowe, left, with the support of NASA Interpreter Evgeny Sokol, gives a report during a meeting of NASA, Roscosmos and Russian Search and Recovery Forces to review 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 33/34 Flight Engineer Evgeny Tarelkin has his Russian Sokol suit pressure checked ahead of his launch onboard a Soyuz TMA-06M spacecraft to the International Space Station with fellow cremates, Flight Engineer Kevin Ford, and Soyuz Commander Oleg Novitskiy, on Tuesday, October 23, 2012, in Baikonur, Kazakhstan. Launch of the Soyuz rocket will send Ford, Novitskiy and Tarelkin on a five-month mission aboard the International Space Station. Photo Credit: (NASA/GCTC/Andrey Shelepin)

Expedition 33/34 Flight Engineer Evgeny Tarelkin is helped into his Russian Sokol suit as he and fellow cremates, Soyuz Commander Oleg Novitskiy, and Flight Engineer Kevin Ford prepare for their Soyuz launch to the International Space Station, on Tuesday, October 23, 2012, in Baikonur, Kazakhstan. Launch of the Soyuz rocket will send Ford, Novitskiy and Tarelkin on a five-month mission aboard the International Space Station. Photo Credit: (NASA/GCTC/Andrey Shelepin)

Expedition 33/34 Flight Engineer Evgeny Tarelkin is helped into his Russian Sokol suit as he and fellow cremates, Soyuz Commander Oleg Novitskiy, and Flight Engineer Kevin Ford prepare for their Soyuz launch to the International Space Station, on Tuesday, October 23, 2012, in Baikonur, Kazakhstan. Launch of the Soyuz rocket will send Ford, Novitskiy and Tarelkin on a five-month mission aboard the International Space Station. Photo Credit: (NASA/GCTC/Andrey Shelepin)

Expedition 33/34 crew members, Russian Cosmonaut and Soyuz Commander Oleg Novitskiy, left, Russian Cosmonaut and Flight Engineer Evgeny Tarelkin, and NASA Astronaut and Flight Engineer Kevin Ford, talk to family members through glass from the room where they just had their Russian Sokol suits pressure checked ahead of their launch onboard a Soyuz TMA-06M spacecraft to the International Space Station, Tuesday, October 23, 2012, in Baikonur, Kazakhstan. Launch of the Soyuz rocket will send Ford, Novitskiy and Tarelkin on a five-month mission aboard the International Space Station. Photo Credit: (NASA/GCTC/Andrey Shelepin)

Expedition 33/34 crew members, NASA Astronaut and Flight Engineer Kevin Ford, left, Russian Cosmonaut and Soyuz Commander Oleg Novitskiy, and Russian Cosmonaut and Flight Engineer Evgeny Tarelkin, right, talk with colleagues shortly after having had their Russian Sokol suits pressure checked ahead of their launch onboard a Soyuz TMA-06M spacecraft to the International Space Station, Tuesday, October 23, 2012, in Baikonur, Kazakhstan. Launch of the Soyuz rocket will send Ford, Novitskiy and Tarelkin on a five-month mission aboard the International Space Station. Photo Credit: (NASA/GCTC/Andrey Shelepin)

Expedition 33/34 crew members, NASA Astronaut and Flight Engineer Kevin Ford, left, Russian Cosmonaut and Soyuz Commander Oleg Novitskiy, and Russian Cosmonaut and Flight Engineer Evgeny Tarelkin, far right, talk to family members through glass from the room where they just had their Russian Sokol suits pressure checked ahead of their launch onboard a Soyuz TMA-06M spacecraft to the International Space Station, Tuesday, October 23, 2012, in Baikonur, Kazakhstan. Launch of the Soyuz rocket will send Ford, Novitskiy and Tarelkin on a five-month mission aboard the International Space Station. Photo Credit: (NASA/GCTC/Andrey Shelepin)

JSC2012-E-042063 (5 March 2012) --- Russian cosmonaut Evgeny Tarelkin, Expedition 31 backup crew member, attired in a Russian Sokol launch and entry suit, takes a break from training in Star City, Russia to pose for a portrait. Photo credit: Gagarin Cosmonaut Training Center

Expedition 33/34 crew members, NASA Astronaut and Flight Engineer Kevin Ford, seated left, Russian Cosmonaut and Soyuz Commander Oleg Novitskiy, and Russian Cosmonaut and Flight Engineer Evgeny Tarelkin, seated right, pose for a photograph with backup crew members, NASA astronaut Chris Cassidy, standing left, Russian cosmonaut Pavel Vinogradov and Russian cosmonaut Alexander Misurkin, standing right shortly after having had their Russian Sokol suits pressure checked ahead of their launch onboard a Soyuz TMA-06M spacecraft to the International Space Station, Tuesday, October 23, 2012, in Baikonur, Kazakhstan. Launch of the Soyuz rocket will send Ford, Novitskiy and Tarelkin on a five-month mission aboard the International Space Station. Photo Credit: (NASA/GCTC/Andrey Shelepin)

At the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan, Expedition 33/34 Flight Engineer Kevin Ford of NASA undergoes a pressure and leak check of his Russian Sokol launch and entry suit in the Site 254 Integration Facility October 10, 2012 during the first of two “fit check” dress rehearsal sessions. Ford, Soyuz Commander Oleg Novitskiy and Flight Engineer Evgeny Tarelkin are in the final phase of their training for launch October 23 in their Soyuz TMA-06M spacecraft for a five-month mission on the International Space Station. NASA/Victor Zelentsov

Expedition 33/34 Flight Engineer Kevin Ford is helped into his Russian Sokol suit as he and fellow cremates, Soyuz Commander Oleg Novitskiy, and Flight Engineer Evgeny Tarelkin prepare for their Soyuz launch to the International Space Station, on Tuesday, October 23, 2012, in Baikonur, Kazakhstan. Launch of the Soyuz rocket will send Ford, Novitskiy and Tarelkin on a five-month mission aboard the International Space Station. Photo Credit: (NASA/GCTC/Andrey Shelepin)

Expedition 33/34 Soyuz Commander Oleg Novitskiy is helped into his Russian Sokol suit as he and fellow cremates, Flight Engineer Kevin Ford, and Flight Engineer Evgeny Tarelkin prepare for their Soyuz launch to the International Space Station, on Tuesday, October 23, 2012, in Baikonur, Kazakhstan. Launch of the Soyuz rocket will send Ford, Novitskiy and Tarelkin on a five-month mission aboard the International Space Station. Photo Credit: (NASA/GCTC/Andrey Shelepin)

Expedition 33/34 Soyuz Commander Oleg Novitskiy has his Russian Sokol suit pressure checked ahead of his launch onboard a Soyuz TMA-06M spacecraft to the International Space Station with fellow cremates, Flight Engineer Kevin Ford, and Flight Engineer Evgeny Tarelkin, on Tuesday, October 23, 2012, in Baikonur, Kazakhstan. Launch of the Soyuz rocket will send Ford, Novitskiy and Tarelkin on a five-month mission aboard the International Space Station. Photo Credit: (NASA/GCTC/Andrey Shelepin)

Expedition 33/34 Flight Engineer Kevin Ford is helped into his Russian Sokol suit as he and fellow cremates, Soyuz Commander Oleg Novitskiy, and Flight Engineer Evgeny Tarelkin prepare for their Soyuz launch to the International Space Station, on Tuesday, October 23, 2012, in Baikonur, Kazakhstan. Launch of the Soyuz rocket will send Ford, Novitskiy and Tarelkin on a five-month mission aboard the International Space Station. Photo Credit: (NASA/GCTC/Andrey Shelepin)

ISS034-E-061657 (5 March 2013) --- With their scheduled stay onboard the International Space Station headed toward its final days, three members of the Expedition 34 crew pose for some photographs in their Sokol suits in the U.S. lab or Destiny. From left are NASA astronaut Kevin Ford, commander; with Roscosmos Flight Engineers Oleg Novitskiy and Evgeny Tarelkin. Two days earlier, the trio joined crew members from Russia, the U.S. and Canada in welcoming the arrival of fresh food and supplies aboard the SpaceX Dragon spacecraft.

Expedition 33/34 Soyuz Commander Oleg Novitskiy has his Russian Sokol suit pressure checked ahead of his launch onboard a Soyuz TMA-06M spacecraft to the International Space Station with fellow cremates, Flight Engineer Kevin Ford, and Flight Engineer Evgeny Tarelkin, on Tuesday, October 23, 2012, in Baikonur, Kazakhstan. Launch of the Soyuz rocket will send Ford, Novitskiy and Tarelkin on a five-month mission aboard the International Space Station. Photo Credit: (NASA/GCTC/Andrey Shelepin)

ISS034-E-061655 (5 March 2013) --- With their scheduled stay onboard the International Space Station headed toward its final days, three members of the Expedition 34 crew pose for some photographs in their Sokol suits in the U.S. lab or Destiny. From left are NASA astronaut Kevin Ford, commander; with Roscosmos Flight Engineers Oleg Novitskiy and Evgeny Tarelkin. Two days earlier, the trio joined crew members from Russia, the U.S. and Canada in welcoming the arrival of fresh food and supplies aboard the SpaceX Dragon spacecraft.

JSC2012-E-215391 (13 Sept. 2012) --- NASA astronaut Kevin Ford (left), Expedition 33 flight engineer and Expedition 34 commander; along with Russian cosmonauts Oleg Novitskiy (center) and Evgeny Tarelkin, both Expedition 33/34 flight engineers, attired in Russian Sokol launch and entry suits, take a break from training in Star City, Russia to pose for a portrait. Photo credit: Gagarin Cosmonaut Training Center

Expedition 33/34 Flight Engineer Kevin Ford has his Russian Sokol suit pressure checked ahead of his launch onboard a Soyuz TMA-06M spacecraft to the International Space Station with fellow cremates, Flight Engineer Evgeny Tarelkin, and Soyuz Commander Oleg Novitskiy, on Tuesday, October 23, 2012, in Baikonur, Kazakhstan. Launch of the Soyuz rocket will send Ford, Novitskiy and Tarelkin on a five-month mission aboard the International Space Station. Photo Credit: (NASA/GCTC/Andrey Shelepin)

Expedition 33/34 Flight Engineer Kevin Ford has his Russian Sokol suit pressure checked ahead of his launch onboard a Soyuz TMA-06M spacecraft to the International Space Station with fellow cremates, Flight Engineer Evgeny Tarelkin, and Soyuz Commander Oleg Novitskiy, on Tuesday, October 23, 2012, in Baikonur, Kazakhstan. Launch of the Soyuz rocket will send Ford, Novitskiy and Tarelkin on a five-month mission aboard the International Space Station. Photo Credit: (NASA/GCTC/Andrey Shelepin)

Expedition 33/34 Flight Engineer Kevin Ford waits to have his Russian Sokol suit pressure checked ahead of his launch to the International Space Station with fellow cremates, Soyuz Commander Oleg Novitskiy, and Flight Engineer Evgeny Tarelkin , on Tuesday, October 23, 2012, in Baikonur, Kazakhstan. Launch of the Soyuz rocket will send Ford, Novitskiy and Tarelkin on a five-month mission aboard the International Space Station. Photo Credit: (NASA/GCTC/Andrey Shelepin)

Expedition 33/34 Flight Engineer Kevin Ford gives a thumbs up as he waits to have his Russian Sokol suit pressure checked ahead of his launch to the International Space Station with fellow cremates, Soyuz Commander Oleg Novitskiy, and Flight Engineer Evgeny Tarelkin , on Tuesday, October 23, 2012, in Baikonur, Kazakhstan. Launch of the Soyuz rocket will send Ford, Novitskiy and Tarelkin on a five-month mission aboard the International Space Station. Photo Credit: (NASA/GCTC/Andrey Shelepin)

Expedition 33/34 Soyuz Commander Oleg Novitskiy is helped into his Russian Sokol suit as he and fellow cremates, Flight Engineer Kevin Ford, and Flight Engineer Evgeny Tarelkin prepare for their Soyuz launch to the International Space Station, on Tuesday, October 23, 2012, in Baikonur, Kazakhstan. Launch of the Soyuz rocket will send Ford, Novitskiy and Tarelkin on a five-month mission aboard the International Space Station. Photo Credit: (NASA/GCTC/Andrey Shelepin)

Expedition 33/34 Soyuz Commander Oleg Novitskiy is helped into his Russian Sokol suit as he and fellow cremates, Flight Engineer Kevin Ford, and Flight Engineer Evgeny Tarelkin prepare for their Soyuz launch to the International Space Station, on Tuesday, October 23, 2012, in Baikonur, Kazakhstan. Launch of the Soyuz rocket will send Ford, Novitskiy and Tarelkin on a five-month mission aboard the International Space Station. Photo Credit: (NASA/GCTC/Andrey Shelepin)

ISS034-E-061654 (5 March 2013) --- With their scheduled stay onboard the International Space Station headed toward its final days, three members of the Expedition 34 crew pose for some photographs in their Sokol suits in the U.S. lab or Destiny. From left are NASA astronaut Kevin Ford, commander; with Roscosmos Flight Engineers Oleg Novitskiy and Evgeny Tarelkin. Two days earlier, the trio joined crew members from Russia, the U.S. and Canada in welcoming the arrival of fresh food and supplies aboard the SpaceX Dragon spacecraft.

At the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan, the Expedition 31/32 prime and backup crewmembers pose for pictures during their suited “fit check” dress rehearsal of launch day activities in advance of a May 15 launching in the Soyuz TMA-04M spacecraft to the International Space Station. Seated from left to right in their “Sokol” launch and entry suits are Russian Flight Engineer Sergei Revin, Soyuz Commander Gennady Padalka and NASA Flight Engineer Joe Acaba. Standing behind them from left to right are backup crewmembers Evgeny Tarelkin, Oleg Novitskiy and Kevin Ford. NASA/Victor Zelentsov

At the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan, the Expedition 33/34 crew shared a playful moment October 10, 2012 during the first of two so-called “fit check” dress rehearsal sessions, hoisting their Russian Sokol launch and entry suits over their heads as they prepared for launch October 23 in their Soyuz TMA-06M spacecraft to begin a five-month mission on the International Space Station. From left to right are NASA Flight Engineer Kevin Ford, Soyuz Commander Oleg Novitskiy and Flight Engineer Evgeny Tarelkin. NASA/Victor Zelentsov

NASA Director for Human Space Flight Programs, Russia, Chad Rowe, left talks during a meeting with NASA, Roscosmos and Russian Search and Recovery Forces where the readiness for the landing of Expedition 54 crew members Joe Acaba and Mark Vande Hei of NASA and cosmonaut Alexander Misurkin was discussed, Sunday, Feb. 25, 2018. Acaba, Vande Hei, and Misurkin are returning after 168 days in space where they served as members of the Expedition 53 and 54 crews onboard the International Space Station. Photo Credit: (NASA/Bill Ingalls)

Roscosmos Director of Human Spaceflight Programs Sergei Krikalev, Roscosmos Director General Dmitry Rogozin, and NASA Associate Administrator for the Human Exploration and Operations Directorate William Gerstenmaier answer questions during a Expedition 59 post-docking press conference, Friday, March 15, 2019 at the Baikonur Hotel in Baikonur, Kazakhstan. Photo Credit: (NASA/Bill Ingalls)

Roscosmos Director of Human Spaceflight Programs Sergei Krikalev, left, Roscosmos Director General Dmitry Rogozin, center, and NASA Associate Administrator for the Human Exploration and Operations Directorate William Gerstenmaier answer questions during a Expedition 59 post-docking press conference, Friday, March 15, 2019 at the Baikonur Hotel in Baikonur, Kazakhstan. Photo Credit: (NASA/Bill Ingalls)

NASA Associate Administrator for the Human Exploration and Operations Directorate William Gerstenmaier answers questions during a Expedition 59 post-docking press conference, Friday, March 15, 2019 at the Baikonur Hotel in Baikonur, Kazakhstan. Photo Credit: (NASA/Bill Ingalls)

NASA, ESA (European Space Agency), Roscosmos, along with Russian Search and Recovery Forces, meet to discuss the readiness for the landing of Expedition 53 Commander Randy Bresnik of NASA and Flight Engineers Paolo Nespoli of ESA (European Space Agency) and Sergey Ryazanskiy of the Russian space agency Roscosmos Tuesday, Dec. 12, 2017. Bresnik, Nespoli and Ryazanskiy are returning after 139 days in space where they served as members of the Expedition 52 and 53 crews onboard the International Space Station. Photo Credit: (NASA/Bill Ingalls)

Expedition 39 Flight Engineer Rick Mastracchio of NASA is presented with a box of Karaganda chocolates during a welcome home ceremony, Wednesday, May 14, 2014 at the Karaganda Airport in Kazakhstan. Mastracchio, 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 just a few hours earlier near the town of Zhezkazgan. 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)

Expedition 33/34 crew members, NASA Astronaut and Flight Engineer Kevin Ford, left, Russian Cosmonaut and Soyuz Commander Oleg Novitskiy, and Russian Cosmonaut and Flight Engineer Evgeny Tarelkin, right, walk out of building 254 of the Baikonur Cosmodrome to board a bus that will take them to launch site 31 for their launch onboard a Soyuz TMA-06M spacecraft to the International Space Station, Tuesday, October 23, 2012, in Baikonur, Kazakhstan. Launch of the Soyuz rocket will send Ford, Novitskiy and Tarelkin on a five-month mission aboard the International Space Station. Photo Credit: (NASA/GCTC/Andrey Shelepin)

Expedition 31 Flight Engineer Joe Acaba, seated left, Soyuz Commander Gennady Padalka, and, Flight Engineer Sergei Revin, seated right, pose for a picture with their backup crew members Kevin Ford, standing left, Oleg Novitskiy and Evgeny Tarelkin, standing right, just a few hours before their launch onboard the Soyuz TMA-04M on Tuesday, May 15, 2012 at the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan. The Soyuz spacecraft with Padalka, Revin, and Acaba onboard, launched at 9:01 a.m. Kazakhstan time on Tuesday, May 15. Photo Credit: (NASA/GCTC/Andrey Shelepin)