Portrait, NASA Chief of Staff Janet Karika, Thursday, Dec. 6, 2018 at NASA Headquarters in Washington. Photo Credit: (NASA/Bill Ingalls)

Philippe Étienne, French Ambassador to the U.S., center, and Jean-Yves Le Gall, president of the French space agency, National Centre for Space Studies (CNES), right, are seen talking to NASA Chief of Staff Janet Karika at the NASA exhibit during the 70th International Astronautical Congress, Wednesday, Oct. 23, 2019, at the Walter E. Washington Convention Center in Washington. Photo credit: (NASA/Aubrey Gemignani)

Vice President Mike Pence, center, meets with NASA Administrator Jim Bridenstine, second from left, and NASA Deputy Administrator Jim Morhard, left, to discuss the progress on Space Policy Directive 1 (SPD-1), Wednesday, Dec. 12, 2018 at NASA Headquarters in Washington. Also attending the meeting was NASA Chief of Staff Janet Karika, NASA Associate Administrator Steve Jurczyk, Chief Financial Officer Jeff DeWit, Associate Administrator for Human Exploration and Operations William Gerstenmaier, and Associate Administrator for the Science Mission Directorate Thomas Zurbuchen, along with acting Chief of Staff to the Vice President Jarrod Agen and Executive Director of the National Space Council Scott Pace. Photo Credit: (NASA/Joel Kowsky)

Janet Karika, NASA Chief of Staff, left, Ken Bowersox, acting Associate Administrator for NASA's Human Exploration and Operations Mission Directorate, and Joel Montalbano, NASA’s International Space Station Deputy Program Manager, watch the docking of SpaceX’s Crew Dragon spacecraft with NASA astronauts Douglas Hurley and Robert Behnken onboard to the International Space Station, Sunday, May 31, 2020, in firing room four of the Launch Control Center at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida. NASA’s SpaceX Demo-2 mission is the first launch with astronauts of the SpaceX Crew Dragon spacecraft and Falcon 9 rocket to the International Space Station as part of the agency’s Commercial Crew Program. The test flight serves as an end-to-end demonstration of SpaceX’s crew transportation system. Behnken and Hurley launched at 3:22 p.m. EDT on Saturday, May 30, from Launch Complex 39A at the Kennedy Space Center and docked with the International Space Station at 10:16am EDT on Sunday, May 31.. A new era of human spaceflight is set to begin as American astronauts once again launch on an American rocket from American soil to low-Earth orbit for the first time since the conclusion of the Space Shuttle Program in 2011. Photo Credit: (NASA/Joel Kowsky)

Phil McAlister, NASA’s director of commercial spaceflight is seen with Janet Karika, NASA Chief of Staff during the countdown of the launch of a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket carrying the company's Crew Dragon spacecraft on NASA’s SpaceX Demo-2 mission with NASA astronauts Robert Behnken and Douglas Hurley onboard, Saturday, May 30, 2020, in firing room four of the Launch Control Center at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida. NASA’s SpaceX Demo-2 mission is the first launch with astronauts of the SpaceX Crew Dragon spacecraft and Falcon 9 rocket to the International Space Station as part of the agency’s Commercial Crew Program. The test flight serves as an end-to-end demonstration of SpaceX’s crew transportation system. Behnken and Hurley launched at 3:22 p.m. EDT on Saturday, May 30, from Launch Complex 39A at the Kennedy Space Center. A new era of human spaceflight is set to begin as American astronauts once again launch on an American rocket from American soil to low-Earth orbit for the first time since the conclusion of the Space Shuttle Program in 2011. Photo Credit: (NASA/Joel Kowsky)

Jean-Yves Le Gall, president of the French space agency, National Centre for Space Studies (CNES), tests a robotic arm at the NASA exhibit during the 70th International Astronautical Congress, Wednesday, Oct. 23, 2019, at the Walter E. Washington Convention Center in Washington. Photo credit: (NASA/Aubrey Gemignani)

Philippe Étienne, French Ambassador to the U.S., center, and Jean-Yves Le Gall, president of the French space agency, National Centre for Space Studies (CNES), left, speak to NASA astronaut Doug Wheelock at the NASA exhibit during the 70th International Astronautical Congress, Wednesday, Oct. 23, 2019, at the Walter E. Washington Convention Center in Washington. Photo credit: (NASA/Aubrey Gemignani)

NASA and SpaceX managers are seen as they monitor the countdown of 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 are scheduled to launch at 7:27 p.m. EST, from Launch Complex 39A at the Kennedy Space Center. Photo Credit: (NASA/Aubrey Gemignani)

Jean-Yves Le Gall, president of the French space agency, National Centre for Space Studies (CNES), center, shakes hands with NASA astronaut Doug Wheelock after he and Philippe Étienne, French Ambassador to the U.S., second from left, visited the NASA exhibit during the 70th International Astronautical Congress, Wednesday, Oct. 23, 2019, at the Walter E. Washington Convention Center in Washington. Photo credit: (NASA/Aubrey Gemignani)

NASA Administrator Jim Bridenstine, fourth from right, and Deputy Administrator Jim Morhard, fifth from right, speak with the Honorable Karen Andrews Minister of Parliament and Minister, Industry, Science and Technology, Austrailia, second from left, during the 70th International Astronautical Congress, Monday, Oct. 21, 2019 in Washington. Photo Credit: (NASA/Aubrey Gemignani)