Lee Echerd, senior mission manager and commercial crew program lead at SpaceX, right, answers a question during a panel discussion at the Embassy of Slovenia with Robyn Gatens, director of International Space Station and acting director of the Commercial Space Flight Division of NASA's Space Operations Mission Directorate, left, and NASA astronauts Don Pettit, Suni Williams, Butch Wilmore, and Nick Hague, and Marko Novak, advisor of management board at Dewesoft 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)

Meghan Allen, senior vice president for strategic engagements at Space Foundation, left, moderates a panel discussion at the Embassy of Slovenia with Marko Novak, advisor of management board at Dewesoft Slovenia, NASA astronauts Suni Williams, Nick Hague, Don Pettit, and Butch Wilmore, Robyn Gatens, director of International Space Station and acting director of the Commercial Space Flight Division of NASA's Space Operations Mission Directorate, and Lee Echerd, senior mission manager and commercial crew program lead at SpaceX, 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)

Iztok Mirošič, Ambassador of the Republic of Slovenia to the United States, provides closing remarks during a panel discussion with Marko Novak, advisor of management board Dewesoft Slovenia, NASA astronauts Suni Williams, Butch Wilmore, Nick Hague, and Don Pettit, Robyn Gatens, director of International Space Station and acting director of the Commercial Space Flight Division of NASA's Space Operations Mission Directorate, and Lee Echerd, senior mission manager and commercial crew program lead at SpaceX, 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)

NASA astronaut Butch Wilmore, answers a question during a panel discussion at the Embassy of Slovenia alongside fellow NASA astronauts Don Pettit, Suni Williams, and Nick Hague, Robyn Gatens, director of International Space Station and acting director of the Commercial Space Flight Division of NASA's Space Operations Mission Directorate, Lee Echerd,, senior mission manager and commercial crew program lead at SpaceX, and Marko Novak, advisor of management board at Dewesoft 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)

NASA astronaut Butch Wilmore, answers a question during a panel discussion at the Embassy of Slovenia alongside fellow NASA astronauts Don Pettit, Suni Williams, and Nick Hague, Robyn Gatens, director of International Space Station and acting director of the Commercial Space Flight Division of NASA's Space Operations Mission Directorate, Lee Echerd,, senior mission manager and commercial crew program lead at SpaceX, and Marko Novak, advisor of management board at Dewesoft 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)

Robyn Gatens, director of International Space Station and acting director of the Commercial Space Flight Division of NASA's Space Operations Mission Directorate, answers a question during a panel discussion at the Embassy of Slovenia alongside NASA astronauts Butch Wilmore, Don Pettit, Suni Williams, and Nick Hague, Lee Echerd,, senior mission manager and commercial crew program lead at SpaceX, and Marko Novak, advisor of management board at Dewesoft 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)

Meghan Allen, senior vice president for strategic engagements at Space Foundation, moderates a panel discussion at the Embassy of Slovenia with NASA astronauts Suni Williams, Butch Wilmore, Nick Hague, and Don Pettit, Robyn Gatens, director of International Space Station and acting director of the Commercial Space Flight Division of NASA's Space Operations Mission Directorate, Marko Novak, advisor of management board Dewesoft Slovenia, and Lee Echerd, senior mission manager and commercial crew program lead at SpaceX, 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)

NASA astronaut Suni Williams, answers a question during a panel discussion at the Embassy of Slovenia alongside fellow NASA astronauts Don Pettit, Suni Williams, and Nick Hague, Robyn Gatens, director of International Space Station and acting director of the Commercial Space Flight Division of NASA's Space Operations Mission Directorate, Lee Echerd,, senior mission manager and commercial crew program lead at SpaceX, and Marko Novak, advisor of management board at Dewesoft 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)

Marko Novak, advisor of management board at Dewesoft Slovenia, answers a question during a panel discussion at the Embassy of Slovenia with NASA astronauts Suni Williams, Don Pettit, Butch Wilmore, and Nick Hague, Robyn Gatens, director of International Space Station and acting director of the Commercial Space Flight Division of NASA's Space Operations Mission Directorate, and Lee Echerd, senior mission manager and commercial crew program lead at SpaceX, 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)

Iztok Mirošič, Ambassador of the Republic of Slovenia to the United States, provides opening remarks during a panel discussion with NASA astronauts Suni Williams, Butch Wilmore, Nick Hague, and Don Pettit, Robyn Gatens, director of International Space Station and acting director of the Commercial Space Flight Division of NASA's Space Operations Mission Directorate, Marko Novak, advisor of management board Dewesoft Slovenia, and Lee Echerd, senior mission manager and commercial crew program lead at SpaceX, 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)

Iztok Mirošič, Ambassador of the Republic of Slovenia to the United States, provides opening remarks during a panel discussion with NASA astronauts Suni Williams, Butch Wilmore, Nick Hague, and Don Pettit, Robyn Gatens, director of International Space Station and acting director of the Commercial Space Flight Division of NASA's Space Operations Mission Directorate, Marko Novak, advisor of management board Dewesoft Slovenia, and Lee Echerd, senior mission manager and commercial crew program lead at SpaceX, 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)

NASA astronaut Nick Hague, answers a question during a panel discussion at the Embassy of Slovenia with fellow NASA astronauts Don Pettit, Suni Williams, and Nick Hague, Robyn Gatens, director of International Space Station and acting director of the Commercial Space Flight Division of NASA's Space Operations Mission Directorate, Lee Echerd,, senior mission manager and commercial crew program lead at SpaceX, and Marko Novak, advisor of management board at Dewesoft 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)

NASA astronaut Don Pettit, second from right, answers a question alongside fellow NASA astronauts Suni Williams, left, Nick Hague and Butch Wilmore during a panel discussion at the Embassy of Slovenia along with Robyn Gatens, director of International Space Station and acting director of the Commercial Space Flight Division of NASA's Space Operations Mission Directorate, Lee Echerd,, senior mission manager and commercial crew program lead at SpaceX, and Marko Novak, advisor of management board at Dewesoft 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)

NASA and SpaceX officials monitor the countdown during a dress rehearsal in preparation for the launch of a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket carrying the company's Crew Dragon spacecraft on NASA’s SpaceX Crew-3 mission with NASA astronauts Raja Chari, Tom Marshburn, Kayla Barron, and ESA (European Space Agency) astronaut Matthias Maurer onboard, Thursday, Oct. 28, 2021, in firing room four of the Launch Control Center 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 are scheduled to launch on Oct. 31 at 2:21 a.m. ET, from Launch Complex 39A at the Kennedy Space Center. Photo Credit: (NASA/Aubrey Gemignani)