Ken Bowersox, acting Associate Administrator for NASA's Human Exploration and Operations Mission Directorate, speaks about NASA’s Moon to Mars Exploration Plans during a keynote at the 70th International Astronautical Congress, Monday, Oct. 21, 2019 at the Walter E. Washington Convention Center in Washington. Photo Credit: (NASA/Joel Kowsky)

Expedition 6 Commander Ken Bowersox calls his wife Annie from the airplane prior to departure from Astana, Kazakhstan to Moscow, Tuesday, May 4, 2003. Photo Credit: (NASA/Bill Ingalls)

Expedition 6 Commander Ken Bowersox, left and NASA Internationl Space Station Science Officer Don Pettit talk about their landing during the flight from Kazakhstan to Moscow, Tuesday, May 4, 2003. Photo Credit: (NASA/Bill Ingalls)

Expedition 6 Flight Engineer Nikolai Budarin, left, Cosmonaut Talgat Musabayev, and Commander Ken Bowersox, right, share a meal onboard the aircraft during their flight from Kazakhstan to Moscow on Tuesday, May 4, 2003. Photo Credit: (NASA/Bill Ingalls)

Expedition 6 Commander Ken Bowersox, left, talks about his mission with Bob Cabana, Director of Flight Crew Operations while on the airplane flying from Astana, Kazakhstan to Moscow on Tuesday, May 4, 2003. Photo Credit: (NASA/Bill Ingalls)

NASA Administrator Sean O'Keefe, left, visits with Expedition 6 Commander Ken Bowersox, far right and his brother on Tuesday, May 4, 2003, in Star City, Russia. Photo Credit: (NASA/Bill Ingalls)

Expedition 6 Flight Engineer Nikolai Budarin, left, and Commander Ken Bowersox are greeted by Cosmonaut Talgat Musabayev, right, on Tuesday, May 4, 2003, after their arrival in Astana, Kazakhstan. The Expedition 6 Soyuz capsule landed in Kazakhstan. Photo Credit: (NASA/Bill Ingalls)

Expedition 6 Commander Ken Bowersox, left, NASA International Space Station Science Officer Don Pettit and Flight Engineer Nikolai Budarin, right, celebrate their mission onboard an aircraft flight from Kazakhstan to Moscow on Tuesday, May 4, 2003. Photo Credit: (NASA/Bill Ingalls)

Expedition 6 Commander Ken Bowersox is hugged by his wife Annie as he shakes hands with Russian Federal Space Agency Director Yuri Koptev, right, after returning, Tuesday, May 4, 2003, to Star City, Russia. Photo Credit: (NASA/Bill Ingalls)

NASA Associate Administrator for Space Operations, Ken Bowersox, discusses the agency’s goals during the annual State of NASA address, Monday, March 11, 2024, at the Mary W. Jackson NASA Headquarters Building in Washington. NASA leaders discussed plans for promoting U.S. leadership in space exploration, improving life on Earth through science and innovation, humanity’s return to the Moon under the Artemis campaign, aeronautics, and more. Photo Credit: (NASA/Bill Ingalls)

NASA acting Associate Administrator for Human Exploration and Operations Ken Bowersox testifies during a House subcommittee on Commerce, Justice, Science, and Related Agencies hearing titled “NASA’s Proposal to Advance the Next Moon Landing by Four Years”, Wednesday, Oct. 16, 2019, Rayburn House Office Building in Washington. Photo Credit: (NASA/Bill Ingalls)

Expedition 68 astronaut Frank Rubio of NASA, assisted by NASA ISS Program Manager Joel Montalbano, left, and NASA Deputy Associate Administrator for Human Exploration and Operations Mission Directorate Ken Bowersox, right, walks to board the Soyuz MS-22 spacecraft for launch, Wednesday, Sept. 21, 2022, at the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan. Rubio, Prokopyev and Petelin launched onboard the Soyuz rocket from the Baikonur Cosmodrome for a mission on the International Space Station. Photo Credit: (NASA/Bill Ingalls)

NASA Associate Administrator for the Space Operations Mission Directorate Ken Bowersox gives introductions during an Expedition 71 postflight event, Monday, March 3, 2025, at the Mary W. Jackson NASA Headquarters Building in Washington. Matthew Dominick, Jeanette Epps, Michael Barratt, and Tracy Dyson served as part of Expedition 71 aboard the International Space Station. Photo Credit: (NASA/Bill Ingalls)

NASA acting Associate Administrator for Human Exploration and Operations Ken Bowersox testifies during a House subcommittee on Commerce, Justice, Science, and Related Agencies hearing titled “NASA’s Proposal to Advance the Next Moon Landing by Four Years”, Wednesday, Oct. 16, 2019, Rayburn House Office Building in Washington. Photo Credit: (NASA/Bill Ingalls)

NASA Associate Administrator for Space Operations, Ken Bowersox, discusses the agency’s goals during the annual State of NASA address, Monday, March 11, 2024, at the Mary W. Jackson NASA Headquarters Building in Washington. NASA leaders discussed plans for promoting U.S. leadership in space exploration, improving life on Earth through science and innovation, humanity’s return to the Moon under the Artemis campaign, aeronautics, and more. Photo Credit: (NASA/Bill Ingalls)

NASA Associate Administrator for Space Operations, Ken Bowersox, discusses the agency’s goals during the annual State of NASA address, Monday, March 11, 2024, at the Mary W. Jackson NASA Headquarters Building in Washington. NASA leaders discussed plans for promoting U.S. leadership in space exploration, improving life on Earth through science and innovation, humanity’s return to the Moon under the Artemis campaign, aeronautics, and more. Photo Credit: (NASA/Bill Ingalls)

KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, FLA. - Expedition 6 Commander Ken Bowersox speaks to KSC employees about his mission and residence on the International Space Station from November 25, 2002, to May 3, 2003.

Expedition 6 Commander Ken Bowersox, left and NASA International Space Station Science Officer Don Pettit speak during a press conference at the Gagarin Cosmonaut Training Center in Star City, Russia, Thursday, May 6, 2003. Photo Credit: (NASA/Bill Ingalls)

Expedition 6 Flight Engineer Nikolai Budarin, left, Commander Ken Bowersox and International Space Station Science Officer Don Pettit, right, pose for photos at a press conference at the Gagarin Cosmonaut Training Center in Star City, Russia, Thursday, May 6, 2003. Photo Credit: (NASA/Bill Ingalls)

Expedition 6 Flight Engineer Nikolai Budarin, left, Commander Ken Bowersox and International Space Station Science Officer Don Pettit, right, pose for photos at a press conference at the Gagarin Cosmonaut Training Center in Star City, Russia, Thursday, May 6, 2003. Photo Credit: (NASA/Bill Ingalls)

Expedition 6 Flight Engineer Nikolai Budarin, left, Commander Ken Bowersox and NASA International Space Station Science Officer Don Pettit, right, answer questions during a press conference at the Gagarin Cosmonaut Training Center in Star City, Russia, Thursday, May 6, 2003. Photo Credit: (NASA/Bill Ingalls)

NASA Administrator Jim Bridenstine, left, and NASA acting Associate Administrator for Human Exploration and Operations Ken Bowersox testify during a House subcommittee on Commerce, Justice, Science, and Related Agencies hearing titled “NASA’s Proposal to Advance the Next Moon Landing by Four Years”, Wednesday, Oct. 16, 2019, Rayburn House Office Building in Washington. Photo Credit: (NASA/Bill Ingalls)

Acting NASA Associate Administrator for Human Exploration and Operations, Ken Bowersox, takes notes 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)

Acting NASA Associate Administrator for Human Exploration and Operations, Ken Bowersox, testifies 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)

Acting NASA Associate Administrator for Human Exploration and Operations, Ken Bowersox, takes notes 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)

Acting NASA Associate Administrator for Human Exploration and Operations, Ken Bowersox, testifies 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)

NASA Administrator Jim Bridenstine, left, and NASA acting Associate Administrator for Human Exploration and Operations Ken Bowersox testify during a House subcommittee on Commerce, Justice, Science, and Related Agencies hearing titled “NASA’s Proposal to Advance the Next Moon Landing by Four Years”, Wednesday, Oct. 16, 2019, Rayburn House Office Building in Washington. Photo Credit: (NASA/Bill Ingalls)

NASA Administrator Jim Bridenstine and NASA acting Associate Administrator for Human Exploration and Operations Ken Bowersox testify during a House subcommittee on Commerce, Justice, Science, and Related Agencies hearing titled “NASA’s Proposal to Advance the Next Moon Landing by Four Years”, Wednesday, Oct. 16, 2019, Rayburn House Office Building in Washington. Photo Credit: (NASA/Bill Ingalls)

Acting NASA Associate Administrator for Human Exploration and Operations, Ken Bowersox, testifies 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)

Acting NASA Associate Administrator for Human Exploration and Operations, Ken Bowersox, testifies 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)

Acting NASA Associate Administrator for Human Exploration and Operations, Ken Bowersox, testifies 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)

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)

Acting NASA Associate Administrator for Human Exploration and Operations, Ken Bowersox, testifies 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)

Ken Bowersox, associate administrator for NASA’s Space Operations Mission Directorate, right, is seen alongside Dwight Deneal, assistant administrator for NASA’s Office of Small Business Programs, second from right, and Casey Swails, NASA deputy associate administrator, as he speaks with Administrator of the Small Business Administration Kelly Loeffler during a visit to the Space Operations Center, Wednesday, April 16, 2025, at the Mary W. Jackson NASA Headquarters building in Washington. Photo Credit: (NASA/Joel Kowsky)

NASA Administrator Jim Bridenstine, left, and NASA acting Associate Administrator for Human Exploration and Operations Ken Bowersox talk prior to the start of a House subcommittee on Commerce, Justice, Science, and Related Agencies hearing titled “NASA’s Proposal to Advance the Next Moon Landing by Four Years”, Wednesday, Oct. 16, 2019, Rayburn House Office Building in Washington. Photo Credit: (NASA/Bill Ingalls)

Jody Singer, Director of NASA’s Marshall Space Flight Center, left, Ken Bowersox, acting Associate Administrator for NASA's Human Exploration and Operations Mission Directorate, center, and Steve Clarke, Deputy Associate Administrator for Exploration in NASA’s Science Mission Directorate, right, discuss the agency’s Artemis program during an interactive STEM discussion with students attending the 70th International Astronautical Congress, Wednesday, Oct. 23, 2019, at NASA Headquarters in Washington. Photo Credit: (NASA/Joel Kowsky)

Steve Clarke, Deputy Associate Administrator for Exploration in NASA’s Science Mission Directorate, right, is seen with Ken Bowersox, acting Associate Administrator for NASA's Human Exploration and Operations Mission Directorate, center, and Jody Singer, Director of NASA’s Marshall Space Flight Center, left, during an interactive STEM discussion with students attending the 70th International Astronautical Congress, Wednesday, Oct. 23, 2019, at NASA Headquarters in Washington. Photo Credit: (NASA/Joel Kowsky)

Acting NASA Associate Administrator for Human Exploration and Operations, Ken Bowersox, testifies 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)

Acting NASA Associate Administrator for Human Exploration and Operations, Ken Bowersox, shoes are seen 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)

Ken Bowersox, associate administrator for NASA's Space Operations Mission Directorate, provides opening remarks for an employee engagement event featuring the crew of Expedition 72, Wednesday, Sept. 17, 2025, at the Mary W. Jackson NASA Headquarters building in Washington. Nick Hague, Suni Williams, Butch Wilmore, and Don Pettit served as part of Expedition 72 onboard the orbiting laboratory. Photo Credit: (NASA/Aubrey Gemignani)

NASA Administrator Jim Bridenstine, NASA Deputy Administrator Jim Morhard, and Ken Bowersox, acting Associate Administrator for NASA's Human Exploration and Operations Mission Directorate, meet with Sylvain Laporte, President of the Canadian Space Agency, at the 70th International Astronautical Congress, Wednesday, Oct. 23, 2019 in Washington. Photo Credit: (NASA/Joel Kowsky)

NASA Administrator Jim Bridenstine, right, Deputy Administrator Jim Morhard, second from right, and Ken Bowersox, acting Associate Administrator for NASA's Human Exploration and Operations Mission Directorate, center, are seen during a meeting with Sylvain Laporte, President of the Canadian Space Agency at the 70th International Astronautical Congress, Wednesday, Oct. 23, 2019 in Washington. Photo Credit: (NASA/Joel Kowsky)

Expedition 65 NASA astronaut Mark Vande Hei, assisted by NASA ISS Program Manager Joel Montalbano, left, and NASA Deputy Associate Administrator for Human Exploration and Operations Mission Directorate Ken Bowersox, right, walks to board the Soyuz MS-18 spacecraft for launch, Friday, April 9, 2021 at the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan. Launch of the Soyuz rocket sent Vande Hei, Russian cosmonauts Pyotr Dubrov and Oleg Novitskiy on a mission to the International Space Station. Photo Credit: (NASA/Bill Ingalls)

NASA Administrator Jim Bridenstine, center left, Deputy Administrator Jim Morhard, Ken Bowersox, acting Associate Administrator for NASA's Human Exploration and Operations Mission Directorate, Thomas Zurbuchen, Associate Administrator of NASA's Science Mission Directorate, meet with Pascale Ehrenfreund, Chair of the Executive Board of the German Aerospace Center (DLR) and other members of the executive board at the 70th International Astronautical Congress, Wednesday, Oct. 23, 2019 in Washington. Photo Credit: (NASA/Joel Kowsky)

NASA Associate Administrator for the Space Operations Mission Directorate, Ken Bowersox, left, and NASA International Space Station Program Deputy Manager, Dina Contella, right, walk NASA astronaut Don Pettit to the Soyuz rocket for boarding, Wednesday, Sept. 11, 2024 at the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan. The launch of Pettit along with Roscosmos cosmonauts Ivan Vagner and Alexey Ovchinin will send the trio on a mission to the International Space Station. Photo Credit: (NASA/Bill Ingalls)

Expedition 72 NASA astronauts Don Pettit, left, Suni Williams, Nick Hague, Butch Wilmore, and Ken Bowersox, associate administrator for NASA's Space Operations Mission Directorate, speak with Iztok Mirošič, Ambassador of the Republic of Slovenia to the United States, center, prior to a panel discussion at the Embassy of Slovenia, Wednesday, Sept. 17, 2025, in Washington. Hague, Wilmore, Williams, and Pettit served as part of Expedition 72 onboard the International Space Station. Photo Credit: (NASA/Joel Kowsky)

KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, FLA. - Expedition 6 Commander Ken Bowersox (left) accepts from Center Director Roy Bridges Jr. a framed graphic commemorating his stay on the International Space Station. Bowersox spoke to KSC employees about his mission and residence on the Station from November 25, 2002, to May 3, 2003.

KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, FLA. - KSC employees fill the Training Auditorium to hear comments from Expedition 6 Commander Ken Bowersox about his mission and residence on the International Space Station from November 25, 2002, to May 3, 2003.

KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, FLA. - Expedition 6 Commander Ken Bowersox poses for a photo with KSC employees after his presentation about his mission and residence on the International Space Station from November 25, 2002, to May 3, 2003.

KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, FLA. - Expedition 6 Commander Ken Bowersox happily signs autographs for KSC employees after his presentation about his mission and residence on the International Space Station from November 25, 2002, to May 3, 2003.

Ken Bowersox, associate administrator for NASA's Space Operations Mission Directorate, monitors the launch of a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket carrying the company's Dragon spacecraft on the Crew-8 mission with NASA astronauts Matthew Dominick, Michael Barratt, and Jeanette Epps, and Roscosmos cosmonaut Alexander Grebenkin onboard, Sunday, March 3, 2024, in the control room of SpaceX’s HangarX at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida. NASA’s SpaceX Crew-8 mission is the eighth 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. Dominick, Barratt, Epps, and Grebenkin launched at 10:53 p.m. EST, from Launch Complex 39A at the Kennedy Space Center. Photo Credit: (NASA/Aubrey Gemignani)

Ken Bowersox, associate administrator for NASA's Space Operations Mission Directorate, center, monitors the countdown of the launch of a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket carrying the company's Dragon spacecraft on NASA’s SpaceX Crew-9 mission with NASA astronaut Nick Hague and Roscosmos cosmonaut Aleksandr Gorbunov onboard, Saturday, Sept. 28, 2024, in the control center of SpaceX’s HangarX at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida. NASA’s SpaceX Crew-9 mission is the ninth 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. Hague and Gorbunov are scheduled to launch at 1:17 p.m. EDT, from Space Launch Complex 40 at the Cape Canaveral Space Force Station. Photo Credit: (NASA/Keegan Barber)

NASA Associate Administrator for the Space Operations Mission Directorate, Ken Bowersox, right, provides remarks during a meeting with the Premier of the Western Cape Government, Alan Winde, NASA Deputy Associate Administrator for Space Communications and Navigation, Badri Younes, left, and Director-General of the Western Cape Government, Dr. Harry Malila, second from left, to discuss the path forward for development of an antenna for the Lunar Exploration Ground Sites (LEGS) mission in Matjiesfontein, South Africa, and other opportunities, Tuesday, June 13, 2023, at the Mary W. Jackson NASA Headquarters building in Washington. Photo Credit: (NASA/Aubrey Gemignani)

NASA SCaN Development Manager, Bill Marinelli provides remarks during a meeting with the Associate Administrator for the Space Operations Mission Directorate, Ken Bowersox, NASA Deputy Associate Administrator for Space Communications and Navigation, Badri Younes, the Premier of the Western Cape Government, Alan Winde, and a delegation from South Africa, to discuss the path forward for development of an antenna for the Lunar Exploration Ground Sites (LEGS) mission in Matjiesfontein, South Africa, and other opportunities, Tuesday, June 13, 2023, at the Mary W. Jackson NASA Headquarters building in Washington. Photo Credit: (NASA/Aubrey Gemignani)

NASA Deputy Associate Administrator for Space Communications and Navigation, Badri Younes, second from left, provides remarks during a meeting with the Premier of the Western Cape Government, Alan Winde, left, Director-General of the Western Cape Government, Dr. Harry Malila, third from left, and NASA Associate Administrator for the Space Operations Mission Directorate, Ken Bowersox, right, to discuss the path forward for development of an antenna for the Lunar Exploration Ground Sites (LEGS) mission in Matjiesfontein, South Africa, and other opportunities, Tuesday, June 13, 2023, at the Mary W. Jackson NASA Headquarters building in Washington. Photo Credit: (NASA/Aubrey Gemignani)

NASA Associate Administrator for the Space Operations Mission Directorate, Ken Bowersox, right, provides remarks during a meeting with from left to right, the Premier of the Western Cape Government, Alan Winde, NASA Deputy Associate Administrator for Space Communications and Navigation, Badri Younes, and Director-General of the Western Cape Government, Dr. Harry Malila, to discuss the path forward for development of an antenna for the Lunar Exploration Ground Sites (LEGS) mission in Matjiesfontein, South Africa, and other opportunities, Tuesday, June 13, 2023, at the Mary W. Jackson NASA Headquarters building in Washington. Photo Credit: (NASA/Aubrey Gemignani)

Director-General of the Western Cape Government, Dr. Harry Malila, third from left, provides remarks during a meeting with the Premier of the Western Cape Government, Alan Winde, left, NASA Deputy Associate Administrator for Space Communications and Navigation, Badri Younes, second from left, and NASA Associate Administrator for the Space Operations Mission Directorate, Ken Bowersox, second from right, to discuss the path forward for development of an antenna for the Lunar Exploration Ground Sites (LEGS) mission in Matjiesfontein, South Africa, and other opportunities, Tuesday, June 13, 2023, at the Mary W. Jackson NASA Headquarters building in Washington. Photo Credit: (NASA/Aubrey Gemignani)

Acting NASA Associate Administrator for Human Exploration and Operations, Ken Bowersox, left, Cristina Chaplain, director, Contracting and National Security Acquisitions, U.S. Government Accountability Office (GAO), center, and Doug Cooke, owner, Cooke Concepts and Solutions, right, testify 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)

May 4, 2003, Star City, Russia. Russian Space Agency Director Yuri Koptev shakes hands with Expedition Six Commander Ken Bowersox, as bowersox is also hugged by his wife Annie. Photo Credit: "NASA/Bill Ingalls"

May 4, 2003, Star City, Russia. Russian Space Agency Director Yuri Koptev shakes hands with Expedition Six Commander Ken Bowersox, as bowersox is also hugged by his wife Annie. Photo Credit: "NASA/Bill Ingalls"

STAR CITY, RUSSIA - Russian Space Agency Director Yuri Koptev shakes hands with Expedition Six Commander Ken Bowersox, as Bowersox is also hugged by his wife Annie. The Expedition Six crew spent 161 days in space, 159 manning the International Space Station. Photo Credit: NASA/Bill Ingalls

From left to right, Provincial Minister for Finance and Economic Opportunities of the Western Cape Government, Mireille Wenger, Premier of the Western Cape Government, Alan Winde, NASA Associate Administrator for the Space Operations Mission Directorate, Ken Bowersox, NASA Deputy Associate Administrator for Space Communications and Navigation, Badri Younes, and Director-General of the Western Cape Government, Dr. Harry Malila, pose for a photo in the Space Operations Center during a meeting with NASA and Western Cape Government representatives, to discuss the path forward for development of an antenna for the Lunar Exploration Ground Sites (LEGS) mission in Matjiesfontein, South Africa, and other opportunities, Tuesday, June 13, 2023, at the Mary W. Jackson NASA Headquarters building in Washington. Photo Credit: (NASA/Aubrey Gemignani)

From left, Ken Bowersox, VP Astronaut Safety, SpaceX, David Thompson, CEO, Orbital Science Corporation, Mark Sirangelo, VP and Chair, SNC Space Systems Board, Sierra Nevada Corp., NASA Administrator Charles Bolden, Assistant to the President for Science and Technology and Director of the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy Dr. John P. Holdren, Jane Poynter, President and Chair, Paragon Space Development Corp., Brewster Shaw, VP and General Manager, NASA Systems, Boeing, Robert Millman of Blue Origin, and, Mike Gass, President and Chief Executive, United Launch Alliance, pose for a group photo during a press conference, Tuesday, Feb. 2, 2010, at the National Press Club in Washington, where it was announced that NASA has awarded $50 million through funded agreements to further the commercial sector's capability to support transport of crew to and from low Earth orbit. Photo Credit: (NASA/Bill Ingalls)

Ken Bowersox, associate administrator for NASA's Space Operations Mission Directorate, is seen during a press conference after the first launch attempt of NASA’s Boeing Crew Flight Test was scrubbed for the day, Monday, May 6, 2024, at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida. NASA’s Boeing Crew Flight Test is the first launch with astronauts of the Boeing CFT-100 spacecraft and United Launch Alliance Atlas V rocket to the International Space Station as part of the agency’s Commercial Crew Program. The flight test, targeted for launch no earlier than Friday, May 10, serves as an end-to-end demonstration of Boeing’s crew transportation system and will carry NASA astronauts Butch Wilmore and Suni Williams to and from the orbiting laboratory. Photo Credit: (NASA/Joel Kowsky)

Ken Bowersox, associate administrator for NASA's Space Operations Mission Directorate, monitors the countdown of the launch of a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket carrying the company's Dragon spacecraft on NASA’s SpaceX Crew-7 mission with NASA astronaut Jasmin Moghbeli, ESA (European Space Agency) astronaut Andreas Mogensen, Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) astronaut Satoshi Furukawa, and Roscosmos cosmonaut Konstantin Borisov onboard, Saturday, Aug. 26, 2023, in SpaceX’s Launch and Landing Control Center in HangerX at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida. NASA’s SpaceX Crew-7 mission is the first 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. Moghbeli, Mogensen, Furukawa, and Borisov launched at 3:27 a.m. EDT from Launch Complex 39A at the Kennedy Space Center. Photo Credit: (NASA/Joel Kowsky)

NASA International Space Station program manger Joel Montalbano, second from left, and Ken Bowersox, associate administrator for NASA's Space Operations Mission Directorate, right, speak with SpaceX Director, Dragon Mission Management, Sarah Walker after the launch of a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket carrying the company's Dragon spacecraft on the Crew-8 mission with NASA astronauts Matthew Dominick, Michael Barratt, and Jeanette Epps, and Roscosmos cosmonaut Alexander Grebenkin onboard, Sunday, March 3, 2024, in the control room of SpaceX’s HangarX at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida. NASA’s SpaceX Crew-8 mission is the eighth 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. Dominick, Barratt, Epps, and Grebenkin launched at 10:53 p.m. EST, from Launch Complex 39A at the Kennedy Space Center. Photo Credit: (NASA/Aubrey Gemignani)

NASA Deputy Associate Administrator Casey Swails, left, acting NASA Associate Administrator Vanessa Wyche, U.S. Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy, acting NASA Administrator Janet Petro, NASA Associate Administrator for the Space Operations Mission Directorate Ken Bowersox, and NASA Director of the International Space Station and acting director of the Commercial Spaceflight Division, Robyn Gatens, react as they watch the SpaceX Dragon spacecraft splash down with NASA astronauts Butch Wilmore, Suni Williams, Nick Hague, and Roscosmos cosmonaut Aleksandr Gorbunov, Tuesday, March 18, 2025, from the Space Operations Center at the Mary W. Jackson NASA Headquarters Building in Washington. Photo Credit: (NASA/Bill Ingalls)

NASA Deputy Associate Administrator Casey Swails, left, acting NASA Associate Administrator Vanessa Wyche, U.S. Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy, acting NASA Administrator Janet Petro, NASA Associate Administrator for the Space Operations Mission Directorate Ken Bowersox, right, watch the SpaceX Dragon spacecraft splash down with NASA astronauts Butch Wilmore, Suni Williams, Nick Hague, and Roscosmos cosmonaut Aleksandr Gorbunov, Tuesday, March 18, 2025, from the Space Operations Center at the Mary W. Jackson NASA Headquarters Building in Washington. Photo Credit: (NASA/Bill Ingalls)

NASA Associate Administrator for the Space Operations Mission Directorate, Ken Bowersox, and NASA Deputy Associate Administrator for Space Communications and Navigation, Badri Younes, meet with the Premier of the Western Cape Government, Alan Winde, and a delegation from South Africa, to discuss the path forward for development of an antenna for the Lunar Exploration Ground Sites (LEGS) mission in Matjiesfontein, South Africa, and other opportunities, Tuesday, June 13, 2023, at the Mary W. Jackson NASA Headquarters building in Washington. Photo Credit: (NASA/Aubrey Gemignani)

May 6, 2003. Star City, Russia. Expedition Six Commander Ken Bowersox speaks at a Press Conference at the Gagarin Cosmonaut Training Center in Star City, Russia. Photo Credit: "NASA/Bill Ingalls"

May 4, 2003, Star City, Russia. NASA Administrator Sean O'Keefe (L) visits with Expedition Six Commander Ken Bowersox (R) and his brother (C). Photo Credit: "NASA/Bill Ingalls"

May 4, 2003, Kazakhstan. Expedition Six Commander Ken Bowersox calls his wife Annie from the airplane prior to deaprture at Astana, Kazakhstan to Moscow. Photo Credit: "NASA/Bill Ingalls"

STS073-363-032 (20 October - 5 November 1995) --- Astronaut Kenneth D. Bowersox, STS-73 mission commander, studies the movement of fluids in microgravity at the Geophysical Fluid Flow Cell (GFFC) workstation in the science module of the Earth-orbiting Space Shuttle Columbia. Bowersox was joined by four other NASA astronauts and two guest researchers for almost 16-days of Earth-orbit research in support of the U.S. Microgravity Laboratory (USML-2) mission.

STS073-230-014 (20 October - 5 November 1995) --- Astronaut Kenneth D. Bowersox, STS-73 mission commander, uses a camcorder to record United States Microgravity Laboratory 2 (USML-2) activities onboard the Space Shuttle Columbia. Nearby, astronaut Kathryn C. Thornton, payload commander, prepares to open a supply chest to support one of many science experiments conducted by the seven-member crew during the 16-day USML-2 flight.

CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. –– One of the newest Hall of Fame astronauts, Ken Bowersox, is acknowledged at the 2010 U.S. Astronaut Hall of Fame induction ceremony at NASA's Kennedy Space Center Visitor Complex in Florida. Bowersox piloted the first maintenance mission to restore NASA's Hubble Space Telescope in 1993. The ceremony took place June 5 and more than 20 hall of fame astronauts attended. Photo credit: NASA_Jack Pfaller

Ken Bowersox, associate administrator for NASA's Space Operations Mission Directorate, monitors the countdown of a launch attempt of a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket carrying the company's Dragon spacecraft on NASA’s SpaceX Crew-11 mission with NASA astronauts Zena Cardman, Mike Fincke, JAXA (Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency) astronaut Kimiya Yui, and Roscosmos cosmonaut Oleg Platonov onboard, Thursday, July 31, 2025, in the control center of SpaceX’s HangarX at 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. Today’s launch of Cardman, Fincke, Yui, Platonov was scrubbed due to weather and is now scheduled for 11:43 a.m. EDT on Friday, August 1, from Launch Complex 39A at the NASA's Kennedy Space Center. Photo Credit: (NASA/Joel Kowsky)

Ken Bowersox, acting Associate Administrator for NASA's Human Exploration and Operations Mission Directorate, left, and NASA Associate Administrator Steve Jurczyk monitor the launch of a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket carrying the company's Crew Dragon spacecraft on the Demo-2 mission with NASA astronauts Douglas Hurley and Robert Behnken 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)

Ken Bowersox, acting Associate Administrator for NASA's Human Exploration and Operations Mission Directorate, left, and NASA Associate Administrator Steve Jurczyk monitor 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)

Ken Bowersox, acting Associate Administrator for NASA's Human Exploration and Operations Mission Directorate, monitors 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)

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)

Ken Bowersox, acting Associate Administrator for NASA's Human Exploration and Operations Mission Directorate, watches as the hatches are opened between SpaceX’s Crew Dragon spacecraft with NASA astronauts Douglas Hurley and Robert Behnken onboard and 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)

May 4, 2003, Astana, Kazakhstan. Expedition Six Commander Ken Bowersox (C), Flight Engineer Nikolai Budarin (L) and NASA ISS Science Officer Don Pettit (not pictured) are welcomed to Kazakhstan by Cosmonaut Talgat Musabayev. The Expedition Six Soyuz capsule landed in Kazakhstan. Photo Credit: "NASA/Bill Ingalls"

May 4, 2003. Expedition Six Commander Ken Bowersox (L), NASA ISS Science Officer Don Pettit (C) and Flight Engineer Nikolai Budarin (R) celebrate their mission onboard an aircraft flight from Kazakhstan to Moscow. Photo Credit: "NASA/Bill Ingalls"

May 4, 2003, Astana, Kazakhstan. Expedition Six Commander Ken Bowersox (C), Flight Engineer Nikolai Budarin (L) and NASA ISS Science Officer Don Pettit (not pictured) are welcomed to Kazakhstan by Cosmonaut Talgat Musabayev. The Expedition Six Soyuz capsule landed in Kazakhstan. Photo Credit: "NASA/Bill Ingalls"

May 6, 2003. Star City, Russia. Expedition Six Flight Engineer Nikolai Budarin (L), Commander Ken Bowersox (C), and NASA ISS Science Officer Don Pettit (R) pose for photos at a Press Conference at the Gagarin Cosmonaut Training Center in Star City, Russia. Photo Credit: "NASA/Bill Ingalls"

May 4, 2003. Expedition Six Commander Ken Bowersox (L), and NASA ISS Science Officer Don Pettit (R) talk about their landing during the flight from Kazakhstan to Moscow. Photo Credit: "NASA/Bill Ingalls"

STAR CITY, RUSSIA - Expedition Six Commander Ken Bowersox speaks at a Press Conference at the Gagarin Cosmonaut Training Center in Star City, Russia. The Expedition Six crew spent 161 days in space, 159 manning the International Space Station. Photo Credit: NASA/Bill Ingalls

May 6, 2003. Star City, Russia. Expedition Six Flight Engineer Nikolai Budarin (L), Commander Ken Bowersox (C), and NASA ISS Science Officer Don Pettit (R) pose for photos at a Press Conference at the Gagarin Cosmonaut Training Center in Star City, Russia. Photo Credit: "NASA/Bill Ingalls"

Onboard Space Shuttle Columbia (STS-73) Payload Commander Kathryn Thornton and Commander Ken Bowersox discuss the Drop Physics Module (DPM) experiment in the United States Microgravity Laboratory 2 (USML-2) spacelab science module.

KAZAKHSTAN - Expedition Six Commander Ken Bowersox (left), and NASA ISS Science Officer Don Pettit (right) talk about their landing during the flight from Kazakhstan to Moscow. The Expedition Six crew spent 161 days in space, 159 manning the International Space Station. Photo Credit: NASA/Bill Ingalls

KAZAKHSTAN - Expedition Six Commander Ken Bowersox calls his wife Annie from the airplane prior to departure from Astana, Kazakhstan, to Moscow. The Expedition Six crew spent 161 days in space, 159 manning the International Space Station. Photo Credit: NASA/Bill Ingalls

STAR CITY, RUSSIA - NASA Administrator Sean O'Keefe (left) visits with Expedition Six Commander Ken Bowersox (right) and his brother (center). The Expedition Six crew spent 161 days in space, 159 manning the International Space Station. Photo Credit: NASA/Bill Ingalls

Ken Bowersox, associate administrator of the Space Operations Mission Directorate at NASA Headquarters, participates in a Crew-7 postlaunch news conference at the agency’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida on Saturday, Aug. 26, 2023. Crew-7 crew members NASA astronaut Jasmin Moghbeli, ESA (European Space Agency) astronaut Andreas Mogensen, JAXA (Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency) astronaut Satoshi Furukawa, and Roscosmos cosmonaut Konstantin Borisov launched aboard SpaceX’s Dragon spacecraft from Kennedy at 3:27 a.m. EDT. They will dock to the orbiting laboratory at about 8:40 a.m. EDT Sunday, Aug. 27.

NASA hosts a Crew-7 postlaunch news conference at the agency’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida on Saturday, Aug. 26, 2023. Participants, from left, are: Jasmine Hopkins, NASA Communications, Ken Bowersox, associate administrator, Space Operations Mission Directorate, NASA Headquarters; Steve Stich, manager, Commercial Crew Program, Kennedy; Joel Montalbano, manager, International Space Station Program, Johnson; Benji Reed, senior director, Human Spaceflight Programs, SpaceX; Hiroshi Sasaki, vice president, JAXA; and Josef Aschbacher, director general, ESA.

NASA Associate Administrator for Space Operations Ken Bowersox participates in a postlaunch news conference for NASA’s Boeing Crew Flight Test on Wednesday, June 5, 2024, at the agency’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida. As part of the agency’s Commercial Crew Program, NASA astronauts Butch Wilmore and Suni Williams are the first to launch aboard Boeing’s Starliner spacecraft to the International Space Station atop a United Launch Alliance Atlas V rocket. Liftoff occurred at 10:52 a.m. EDT Wednesday, June 5, from Space Launch Complex-41 at Cape Canaveral Space Force Station.

NASA hosts a Crew-7 postlaunch news conference at the agency’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida on Saturday, Aug. 26, 2023. Participants included Jasmine Hopkins, NASA Communications, Ken Bowersox, associate administrator, Space Operations Mission Directorate, NASA Headquarters; Steve Stich, manager, Commercial Crew Program, Kennedy; Joel Montalbano, manager, International Space Station Program, Johnson; Benji Reed, senior director, Human Spaceflight Programs, SpaceX; Hiroshi Sasaki, vice president, JAXA; and Josef Aschbacher, director general, ESA.

KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, FLA. -- Expedition 6 Commander Ken Bowersox suits up before launch. Bowersox will be making his fifth Shuttle flight. The primary mission is bringing the Expedition 6 crew to the Station and returning the Expedition 5 crew to Earth. The major objective of the mission is delivery of the Port 1 (P1) Integrated Truss Assembly, which will be attached to the port side of the S0 truss. Three spacewalks are planned to install and activate the truss and its associated equipment. Launch of Space Shuttle Endeavour on mission STS-113 is scheduled for Nov. 11 at 12:58 a.m. EST.

Megan Cruz, NASA Communications, left, moderates a press conference with Ken Bowersox, associate administrator for NASA's Space Operations Mission Directorate, second from left, Steve Stich, manager of NASA's Commercial Crew Program, Dana Weigel, manager of NASA's International Space Station Program, Tory Bruno, president and CEO of United Launch Alliance, and Mark Nappi, vice president and program manager for the Commercial Crew Program at Boeing, after the first launch attempt of NASA’s Boeing Crew Flight Test was scrubbed for the day, Monday, May 6, 2024, at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida. NASA’s Boeing Crew Flight Test is the first launch with astronauts of the Boeing CFT-100 spacecraft and United Launch Alliance Atlas V rocket to the International Space Station as part of the agency’s Commercial Crew Program. The flight test, targeted for launch no earlier than Friday, May 10, serves as an end-to-end demonstration of Boeing’s crew transportation system and will carry NASA astronauts Butch Wilmore and Suni Williams to and from the orbiting laboratory. Photo Credit: (NASA/Joel Kowsky)

NASA Administrator Bill Nelson, left, Bob Cabana, NASA associate administrator, center, and Ken Bowersox, deputy associate administrator for NASA's Space Operations Mission Directorate, are seen following the attempted launch of a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket carrying the company's Dragon spacecraft on NASA’s SpaceX Crew-6 mission with NASA astronauts Stephen Bowen and Warren "Woody" Hoburg, UAE (United Arab Emirates) astronaut Sultan Alneyadi, and Roscosmos cosmonaut Andrey Fedyaev onboard, Monday, Feb. 27, 2023, in firing room four of the Launch Control Center at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida. NASA’s SpaceX Crew-6 mission is the sixth 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. Today’s launch attempt was scrubbed due to an issue with ground systems. The next launch attempt is targeted for 12:34am ET on Thursday, March 2. Photo Credit: (NASA/Joel Kowsky)

Ken Bowersox, associate administrator for NASA's Space Operations Mission Directorate, left, and NASA Deputy Administrator Pam Melroy, right, are seen following the launch of a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket carrying the company's Dragon spacecraft on the Crew-7 mission with NASA astronaut Jasmin Moghbeli, ESA (European Space Agency) astronaut Andreas Mogensen, Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) astronaut Satoshi Furukawa, and Roscosmos cosmonaut Konstantin Borisov onboard, Saturday, Aug. 26, 2023, in the SpaceX’s Launch and Landing Control Center in HangerX at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida. NASA’s SpaceX Crew-7 mission is the seventh 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. Moghbeli, Mogensen, Furukawa, and Borisov launched at 3:27 a.m. EDT, from Launch Complex 39A at the Kennedy Space Center to begin a six month mission aboard the International Space Station. Photo Credit: (NASA/Joel Kowsky)