Expedition 19 Flight Engineer Michael R. Barratt answers questions from behind glass during a press conference on Wednesday, March 25, 2009 at the Cosmonaut Hotel in Baikonur, Kazakhstan. Photo Credit: (NASA/Bill Ingalls)
Expedition 19 Flight Engineer Michael R. Barratt answers questions from behind glass during a press conference on Wednesday, March 25, 2009 at the Cosmonaut Hotel in Baikonur, Kazakhstan. Photo Credit: (NASA/Bill Ingalls)
Expedition 19 Flight Engineer Michael R. Barratt smiles at his family from a quarantined glass room after a press conference on Wednesday, March 25, 2009 at the Cosmonaut Hotel in Baikonur, Kazakhstan. Photo Credit: (NASA/Bill Ingalls)
Spaceflight Participant Charles Simonyi, left, Expedition 19 Commander Gennady I. Padalka, center, and Flight Engineer Michael R. Barratt are seen in quarantine behind glass during the State Commission meeting on Wednesday, March 25, 2009 in Baikonur, Kazakhstan. Photo Credit: (NASA/Bill Ingalls)
Expedition 19 Commander Gennady I. Padalka, left, and Flight Engineer Michael R. Barratt are seen in quarantine behind glass during the State Commission meeting on Wednesday, March 25, 2009 in Baikonur, Kazakhstan. Photo Credit: (NASA/Bill Ingalls)
Expedition 19 Commander Gennady I. Padalka, left, and Flight Engineer Michael R. Barratt answer questions from behind glass during a press conference on Wednesday, March 25, 2009 at the Cosmonaut Hotel in Baikonur, Kazakhstan. Photo Credit: (NASA/Bill Ingalls)
Spaceflight Participant Charles Simonyi, left, Expedition 19 Commander Gennady I. Padalka, center, and Flight Engineer Michael R. Barratt are seen in quarantine behind glass as they pose for photographs on Wednesday, March 25, 2009 at the Cosmonaut Hotel in Baikonur, Kazakhstan. Photo Credit: (NASA/Bill Ingalls)
Spaceflight Participant Charles Simonyi, left, Expedition 19 Commander Gennady I. Padalka, center, and Flight Engineer Michael R. Barratt answer questions from behind glass during a press conference on Wednesday, March 25, 2009 at the Cosmonaut Hotel in Baikonur, Kazakhstan. Photo Credit: (NASA/Bill Ingalls)
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Expedition 19 Flight Engineer Michael R. Barratt exercises at the Cosmonaut Hotel, Saturday, March 21, 2009 in Baikonur, Kazakhstan. (Photo Credit: NASA/Bill Ingalls)
Expedition 19 Flight Engineer Michael R. Barratt is interviewed by members of the press during a recreation break at the Cosmonaut Hotel, Saturday, March 21, 2009 in Baikonur, Kazakhstan. (Photo Credit: NASA/Bill Ingalls)
A Russian doctor monitors Expedition 20 Flight Engineer Michael Barratt onboard a helicopter heading to Kustanay, Kazakhstan shortly after Barratt, Expedition 20 Commander Gennady Padalka, and spaceflight participant Guy Laliberté landed their Soyuz TMA-14 capsule near the town of Arkalyk, Kazakhstan on Sunday, Oct. 11, 2009. Padalka and Barratt are returning from six months onboard the International Space Station, along with Laliberté who arrived at the station on Oct. 2 with Expedition 21 Flight Engineers Jeff Williams and Maxim Suraev aboard the Soyuz TMA-16 spacecraft. Photo Credit: (NASA/Bill Ingalls)
Russian medical personnel monitor Expedition 20 Flight Engineer Michael Barratt onboard a helicopter heading to Kustanay, Kazakhstan shortly after Barratt, Expedition 20 Commander Gennady Padalka, and spaceflight participant Guy Laliberté landed their Soyuz TMA-14 capsule near the town of Arkalyk, Kazakhstan on Sunday, Oct. 11, 2009. Padalka and Barratt are returning from six months onboard the International Space Station, along with Laliberté who arrived at the station on Oct. 2 with Expedition 21 Flight Engineers Jeff Williams and Maxim Suraev aboard the Soyuz TMA-16 spacecraft. Photo Credit: (NASA/Bill Ingalls)
Expedition 20 Flight Engineer Michael Barratt is helped out of a Russian Search and Rescue helicopter after a two hour helicopter flight from the Soyuz TMA-14 landing site to Kustanay, kazakhstan on Sunday, Oct. 11, 2009. Barratt, Expedition 20 Commander Gennady Padalka, and spaceflight participant Guy Laliberté landed their Soyuz TMA-14 capsule near the town of Arkalyk, Kazakhstan. Padalka and Barratt are returned from six months onboard the International Space Station, along with Laliberté who arrived at the station on Oct. 2 with Expedition 21 Flight Engineers Jeff Williams and Maxim Suraev aboard the Soyuz TMA-16 spacecraft. Photo Credit: (NASA/Bill Ingalls)
Michelle Barratt wishes her husband, NASA Astronaut Michael Barratt, a happy wedding anniversary via phone to the International Space Station from the Russian Mission Control Center, Korolev, Russia, Saturday, March 28, 2009. The Soyuz TMA-14 spacecraft docked to the International Space Station and delivered Expedition 19 Commander Gennady I. Padalka, Flight Engineer Michael R. Barratt and Spaceflight Participant Charles Simonyi. Photo Credit: (NASA/Bill Ingalls)
Expedition 19 Flight Engineer Michael R. Barratt, left, and backup commander Jeffrey Williams are seen in quarantine behind glass during a press conference on Wednesday, March 25, 2009 at the Cosmonaut Hotel in Baikonur, Kazakhstan. Photo Credit: (NASA/Bill Ingalls)
Expedition 19 Flight Engineer Michael R. Barratt, smiles to family and colleagues in the suit up room of building 254, Thursday, March 26, 2009 in Baikonur, Kazakhstan. (Photo Credit: NASA/Bill Ingalls)
Expedition 19 Flight Engineer Michael R. Barratt and backup spaceflight participant Esther Dyson exercise at the Cosmonaut Hotel, Saturday, March 21, 2009 in Baikonur, Kazakhstan. (Photo Credit: NASA/Bill Ingalls)
Expedition 20 Flight Engineer Michael Barratt signs an autograph inside a helicopter shortly after shortly after he and Expedition 20 Commander Gennady Padalka, and spaceflight participant Guy Laliberté landed their Soyuz TMA-14 capsule near the town of Arkalyk, Kazakhstan on Sunday, Oct. 11, 2009. Padalka and Barratt are returning from six months onboard the International Space Station, along with Laliberté who arrived at the station on Oct. 2 with Expedition 21 Flight Engineers Jeff Williams and Maxim Suraev aboard the Soyuz TMA-16 spacecraft. Photo Credit: (NASA/Bill Ingalls)
Expedition 20 Flight Engineer Michael Barratt signs the inside of his helicopter shortly after shortly after he and Expedition 20 Commander Gennady Padalka, and spaceflight participant Guy Laliberté landed their Soyuz TMA-14 capsule near the town of Arkalyk, Kazakhstan on Sunday, Oct. 11, 2009. Padalka and Barratt are returning from six months onboard the International Space Station, along with Laliberté who arrived at the station on Oct. 2 with Expedition 21 Flight Engineers Jeff Williams and Maxim Suraev aboard the Soyuz TMA-16 spacecraft. Photo Credit: (NASA/Bill Ingalls)
Astronaut Sunita WIlliams, left, talks with Expedition 20 Flight Engineer Michael Barratt onboard a helicopter shortly after shortly after he and Expedition 20 Commander Gennady Padalka, and spaceflight participant Guy Laliberté landed their Soyuz TMA-14 capsule near the town of Arkalyk, Kazakhstan on Sunday, Oct. 11, 2009. Padalka and Barratt are returning from six months onboard the International Space Station, along with Laliberté who arrived at the station on Oct. 2 with Expedition 21 Flight Engineers Jeff Williams and Maxim Suraev aboard the Soyuz TMA-16 spacecraft. Photo Credit: (NASA/Bill Ingalls)
Expedition 20 Flight Engineer Michael Barratt is carried in a chair to the medical tent shortly after he and Spaceflight participant Guy Laliberté, and Expedition 20 Commander Gennady Padalka landed in their Soyuz TMA-14 capsule near the town of Arkalyk, Kazakhstan on Sunday, Oct. 11, 2009. Padalka and Barratt are returning from six months onboard the International Space Station, along with Laliberté who arrived at the station on Oct. 2 with Expedition 21 Flight Engineers Jeff Williams and Maxim Suraev aboard the Soyuz TMA-16 spacecraft. Photo Credit: (NASA/Bill Ingalls)
NASA astronaut Michael Barratt helped out of the SpaceX Dragon Endeavour spacecraft onboard the SpaceX recovery ship MEGAN after he, NASA astronauts Matthew Dominick, Jeanette Epps, and Roscosmos cosmonaut Alexander Grebenkin landed in the Gulf of Mexico off the coast of Pensacola, Florida, Friday, Oct. 25, 2024. Dominick, Barratt, Epps, Grebenkin are returning after seven-months in space as part of Expedition 70 aboard the International Space Station. Photo Credit: (NASA/Joel Kowsky)
Expedition 71 NASA astronaut Michael Barratt speaks to students, Wednesday, March 5, 2025, at Elsie Whitlow Stokes Community Freedom Public Charter School in Washington. Barratt and fellow crewmates Matthew Dominick, Jeanette Epps, and Tracy Dyson served as part of Expedition 71 aboard the International Space Station. Photo Credit: (NASA/Joel Kowsky)
Expedition 19 Flight Engineer Michael R. Barratt waves goodbye to his family from the bus that will take him, Expedition 19 Commander Gennady I. Padalka and Spaceflight Participant Charles Simonyi to the Soyuz launch pad on Thursday, March 26, 2009 in Baikonur, Kazakhstan. Photo Credit: NASA/Victor Zelentsov)
Spaceflight Participant Charles Simonyi, left, Expedition 19 Commander Gennady I. Padalka, center, and Flight Engineer Michael R. Barratt along with the backup crew and flight doctors walk the grounds of the Cosmonaut Hotel, Saturday, March 21, 2009 in Baikonur, Kazakhstan. (Photo Credit: NASA/Bill Ingalls)
NASA Astronaut and Expedition 19 Flight Engineer Michael Barratt delivers remarks and shows a moon rock sample being flown onboard the International Space Station at the Apollo 40th anniversary celebration held at the National Air and Space Museum, Monday, July 20, 2009 in Washington. Photo Credit: (NASA/Bill Ingalls)
Expedition 19 Commander Gennady I. Padalka, left, watches as Flight Engineer Michael R. Barratt plants a tree during the traditional tree planting ceremony at the Cosmonaut Hotel, Saturday, March 21, 2009 in Baikonur, Kazakhstan. (Photo Credit: NASA/Bill Ingalls)
Expedition 19 Flight Engineer Michael R. Barratt, background, and Spaceflight Participant Charles Simonyi walk with Expedition 19 Commander Gennady I. Padalka to the base of the Soyuz rocket prior to launch on Thursday, March 26, 2009 in Baikonur, Kazakhstan. (Photo Credit: NASA/Bill Ingalls)
Expedition 19 Flight Engineer Michael R. Barratt and Spaceflight Participant Charles Simonyi, background, are seen through a quarantine windowed room as they participate in Soyuz rendezvous and docking training at the Cosmonaut Hotel, Saturday, March 21, 2009 in Baikonur, Kazakhstan. (Photo Credit: NASA/Bill Ingalls)
Members of the media watch as Expedition 19 Commander Gennady I. Padalka, left, and Flight Engineer Michael R. Barratt plant a tree during the traditional tree planting ceremony at the Cosmonaut Hotel, Saturday, March 21, 2009 in Baikonur, Kazakhstan. (Photo Credit: NASA/Bill Ingalls)
Expedition 19 Flight Engineer Michael R. Barratt, left, waves hello to family and colleagues with backup commander Jeffrey Williams in the suit up room of building 254, Thursday, March 26, 2009 in Baikonur, Kazakhstan. (Photo Credit: NASA/Bill Ingalls)
Expedition 19 Commander Gennady I. Padalka, left, and Flight Engineer Michael R. Barratt listen to their mp3 players as a medical doctor looks on during the tilt table training at the Cosmonaut Hotel, Saturday, March 21, 2009 in Baikonur, Kazakhstan.(Photo Credit: NASA/Bill Ingalls)
Expedition 19 Flight Engineer Michael R. Barratt, left, laughs with backup commander Jeffrey Williams in the suit up room of building 254, Thursday, March 26, 2009 in Baikonur, Kazakhstan. (Photo Credit: NASA/Bill Ingalls)
Spaceflight Participant Charles Simonyi and Expedition 19 Flight Engineer Michael R. Barratt, foreground, along with cosmonaut instructors are seen through a quarantine windowed room as they participate in Soyuz rendezvous and docking training at the Cosmonaut Hotel, Saturday, March 21, 2009 in Baikonur, Kazakhstan. (Photo Credit: NASA/Bill Ingalls)
Expedition 19 Flight Engineer Michael R. Barratt is helped into a seat where his suit will be pressure checked in preparation for his Soyuz launch to the International Space Station with Commander Gennady I. Padalka and Spaceflight Participant Charles Simonyi on Thursday, March 26, 2009 in Baikonur, Kazakhstan. (Photo Credit: NASA/Bill Ingalls)
NASA astronaut Michael Barratt, is seen during an Expedition 71 postflight presentation, Monday, March 3, 2025, at the Mary W. Jackson NASA Headquarters Building in Washington. Barrett, Matthew Dominick, Jeanette Epps, and Tracy Dyson served as part of Expedition 71 aboard the International Space Station. Photo Credit: (NASA/Bill Ingalls)
Spaceflight Participant Charles Simonyi, left, Expedition 19 Commander Gennady I. Padalka, Flight Engineer Michael R. Barratt, third from left, backup Expedition 19 flight engineer Maxim Suraev, backup commander Jeffrey Williams and backup spaceflight participant Esther Dyson, far right, answer questions from behind glass during a press conference on Wednesday, March 25, 2009 at the Cosmonaut Hotel in Baikonur, Kazakhstan. Photo Credit: (NASA/Bill Ingalls)
NASA astronauts Michael Barratt, left, Tracy Dyson, are seen during an Expedition 71 postflight presentation, Monday, March 3, 2025, at the Mary W. Jackson NASA Headquarters Building in Washington. Barrett, Dyson, Jeanette Epps, and Matthew Dominick served as part of Expedition 71 aboard the International Space Station. Photo Credit: (NASA/Bill Ingalls)
NASA astronaut Michael Barratt, is seen during an Expedition 71 postflight presentation, Monday, March 3, 2025, at the Mary W. Jackson NASA Headquarters Building in Washington. Barrett, Matthew Dominick, Jeanette Epps, and Tracy Dyson served as part of Expedition 71 aboard the International Space Station. Photo Credit: (NASA/Bill Ingalls)
Expedition 20 Flight Engineer Michael Barratt rests in a chair shortly after he and Spaceflight participant Guy Laliberté, and Expedition 20 Commander Gennady Padalka landed in their Soyuz TMA-14 capsule near the town of Arkalyk, Kazakhstan on Sunday, Oct. 11, 2009. Padalka and Barratt are returning from six months onboard the International Space Station, along with Laliberté who arrived at the station on Oct. 2 with Expedition 21 Flight Engineers Jeff Williams and Maxim Suraev aboard the Soyuz TMA-16 spacecraft. Photo Credit: (NASA/Bill Ingalls)
Expedition 20 Flight Engineer Michael Barratt rests in a chair and is checked by medical personnel shortly after he and Spaceflight participant Guy Laliberté, and Expedition 20 Commander Gennady Padalka landed in their Soyuz TMA-14 capsule near the town of Arkalyk, Kazakhstan on Sunday, Oct. 11, 2009. Padalka and Barratt are returning from six months onboard the International Space Station, along with Laliberté who arrived at the station on Oct. 2 with Expedition 21 Flight Engineers Jeff Williams and Maxim Suraev aboard the Soyuz TMA-16 spacecraft. Photo Credit: (NASA/Bill Ingalls)
Expedition 20 Flight Engineer Michael Barratt rests in a chair shortly after he and Spaceflight participant Guy Laliberté, and Expedition 20 Commander Gennady Padalka landed in their Soyuz TMA-14 capsule near the town of Arkalyk, Kazakhstan on Sunday, Oct. 11, 2009. Padalka and Barratt are returning from six months onboard the International Space Station, along with Laliberté who arrived at the station on Oct. 2 with Expedition 21 Flight Engineers Jeff Williams and Maxim Suraev aboard the Soyuz TMA-16 spacecraft. Photo Credit: (NASA/Bill Ingalls)
Expedition 20 Flight Engineer Michael Barratt rests in a chair shortly after he and Spaceflight participant Guy Laliberté, and Expedition 20 Commander Gennady Padalka landed in their Soyuz TMA-14 capsule near the town of Arkalyk, Kazakhstan on Sunday, Oct. 11, 2009. Padalka and Barratt are returning from six months onboard the International Space Station, along with Laliberté who arrived at the station on Oct. 2 with Expedition 21 Flight Engineers Jeff Williams and Maxim Suraev aboard the Soyuz TMA-16 spacecraft. Photo Credit: (NASA/Bill Ingalls)
Expedition 20 Flight Engineer Michael Barratt rests in a chair shortly after he and Spaceflight participant Guy Laliberté, and Expedition 20 Commander Gennady Padalka landed in their Soyuz TMA-14 capsule near the town of Arkalyk, Kazakhstan on Sunday, Oct. 11, 2009. Padalka and Barratt are returning from six months onboard the International Space Station, along with Laliberté who arrived at the station on Oct. 2 with Expedition 21 Flight Engineers Jeff Williams and Maxim Suraev aboard the Soyuz TMA-16 spacecraft. Photo Credit: (NASA/Bill Ingalls)
NASA Flight Surgeon Ed Powers, left, laughs as Expedition 20 Flight Engineer Michael Barratt talks about how strange, weight and gravity feel when holding a bottle of water shortly after Barratt, Expedition 20 Commander Gennady Padalka, and spaceflight participant Guy Laliberté landed their Soyuz TMA-14 capsule near the town of Arkalyk, Kazakhstan on Sunday, Oct. 11, 2009. Padalka and Barratt are returning from six months onboard the International Space Station, along with Laliberté who arrived at the station on Oct. 2 with Expedition 21 Flight Engineers Jeff Williams and Maxim Suraev aboard the Soyuz TMA-16 spacecraft. Photo Credit: (NASA/Bill Ingalls)
NASA Expedition 71 astronauts Michael Barratt, left, Tracy Dyson, Matthew Dominick, and Jeanette Epps, right, give a postflight presentation, Monday, March 3, 2025, at the Mary W. Jackson NASA Headquarters Building in Washington. Dominick, Epps, Barratt, and Dyson served as part of Expedition 71 aboard the International Space Station. Photo Credit: (NASA/Bill Ingalls)
Expedition 71 NASA astronauts Michael Barratt, left, Matthew Dominick, Jeanette Epps, and Tracy Dyson, speak to delegates of the U.S. Senate Youth Program, Wednesday, March 5, 2025 at the Mary W. Jackson NASA Headquarters Building in Washington. Dominick, Epps, Barratt, and Dyson served as part of Expedition 71 aboard the International Space Station. Photo Credit: (NASA/Joel Kowsky)
Expedition 71 NASA astronauts Matthew Dominick, left, Tracy Dyson, and Michael Barratt are seen during a tour of the Earth Information Center, Monday, March 3, 2025, at the Mary W. Jackson NASA Headquarters building in Washington. Dominick, Barratt, Dyson and Jeanette Epps served as part of Expedition 71 aboard the International Space Station. Photo Credit: (NASA/Joel Kowsky)
NASA Expedition 71 astronauts Michael Barratt, left, Tracy Dyson, Matthew Dominick, and Jeanette Epps, right, give a postflight presentation, Monday, March 3, 2025, at the Mary W. Jackson NASA Headquarters Building in Washington. Dominick, Epps, Barratt, and Dyson served as part of Expedition 71 aboard the International Space Station. Photo Credit: (NASA/Bill Ingalls)
Expedition 71 NASA astronauts Jeanette Epps, left, Tracy Dyson, and Michael Barratt, speak to students, Wednesday, March 5, 2025 at Elsie Whitlow Stokes Community Freedom Public Charter School in Washington. Epps, Barratt, and Dyson served as part of Expedition 71 aboard the International Space Station. Photo Credit: (NASA/Joel Kowsky)
Eleanor Stokes, program manger for NASA’s Earth Information Center, second from right, speaks with Expedition 71 NASA astronauts Jeanette Epps, left, Michael Barratt, Tracy Dyson, and Matthew Dominick during a tour of the Earth Information Center, Monday, March 3, 2025, at the Mary W. Jackson NASA Headquarters building in Washington. Dominick, Epps, Barratt, and Dyson served as part of Expedition 71 aboard the International Space Station. Photo Credit: (NASA/Joel Kowsky)
Expedition 71 NASA astronaut Tracy Dyson, speaks to delegates of the U. S. Senate Youth Program alongside fellow Expedition 71 crewmates Michael Barratt, Matthew Dominick, and Jeanette Epps, Wednesday, March 5, 2025 at the Mary W. Jackson NASA Headquarters Building in Washington. Dominick, Epps, Barratt, and Dyson served as part of Expedition 71 aboard the International Space Station. Photo Credit: (NASA/Joel Kowsky)
NASA acting Administrator Janet Petro, foreground, NASA Expedition 71 astronauts Tracy Dyson, left, Matthew Dominick, Michael Barratt, and Jeanette Epps, right, along with other senior leadership, meet, Monday, March 3, 2025, at the Mary W. Jackson NASA Headquarters Building in Washington. Dominick, Epps, Barratt, and Dyson served as part of Expedition 71 aboard the International Space Station. Photo Credit: (NASA/Bill Ingalls)
Expedition 71 NASA astronaut Michael Barratt, left, speaks to delegates of the U.S. Senate Youth Program alongside fellow crewmates Matthew Dominick, Jeanette Epps, and Tracy Dyson, Wednesday, March 5, 2025 at the Mary W. Jackson NASA Headquarters Building in Washington. Dominick, Epps, Barratt, and Dyson served as part of Expedition 71 aboard the International Space Station. Photo Credit: (NASA/Joel Kowsky)
NASA acting Administrator Janet Petro, center, poses fro a group photograph with NASA Expedition 71 astronauts Tracy Dyson, left, Jeanette Epps, Matthew Dominick, and Michael Barratt, right, Monday, March 3, 2025, at the Mary W. Jackson NASA Headquarters Building in Washington. Dominick, Epps, Barratt, and Dyson served as part of Expedition 71 aboard the International Space Station. Photo Credit: (NASA/Bill Ingalls)
Expedition 71 NASA astronaut Matthew Dominick, second from left, speaks to delegates of the U.S. Senate Youth Program alongside fellow crewmates Michael Barratt, Jeanette Epps, and Tracy Dyson, Wednesday, March 5, 2025 at the Mary W. Jackson NASA Headquarters Building in Washington. Dominick, Epps, Barratt, and Dyson served as part of Expedition 71 aboard the International Space Station. Photo Credit: (NASA/Joel Kowsky)
Expedition 71 NASA astronaut Michael Barratt speaks to delegates of the U.S. Senate Youth Program, Wednesday, March 5, 2025 at the Mary W. Jackson NASA Headquarters Building in Washington. Barratt, and fellow crewmates NASA astronauts Matthew Dominick, Jeanette Epps, and Tracy Dyson served as part of Expedition 71 aboard the International Space Station. Photo Credit: (NASA/Joel Kowsky)
NASA Expedition 71 astronauts Michael Barratt, left, Tracy Dyson, Matthew Dominick, and Jeanette Epps, right, give a postflight presentation, Monday, March 3, 2025, at the Mary W. Jackson NASA Headquarters Building in Washington. Dominick, Epps, Barratt, and Dyson served as part of Expedition 71 aboard the International Space Station. Photo Credit: (NASA/Bill Ingalls)
Expedition 71 NASA astronauts Jeanette Epps, left, Tracy Dyson, and Michael Barratt, speak to students, Wednesday, March 5, 2025 at Elsie Whitlow Stokes Community Freedom Public Charter School in Washington. Epps, Barratt, and Dyson served as part of Expedition 71 aboard the International Space Station. Photo Credit: (NASA/Joel Kowsky)
Eleanor Stokes, program manger for NASA’s Earth Information Center, second from right, speaks with Expedition 71 NASA astronauts Michael Barratt, Tracy Dyson, Jeanette Epps, and Matthew Dominick during a tour of the Earth Information Center, Monday, March 3, 2025, at the Mary W. Jackson NASA Headquarters building in Washington. Dominick, Epps, Barratt, and Dyson served as part of Expedition 71 aboard the International Space Station. Photo Credit: (NASA/Joel Kowsky)
Expedition 71 NASA astronauts Jeanette Epps, left, Tracy Dyson, and Michael Barratt, speak to students, Wednesday, March 5, 2025 at Elsie Whitlow Stokes Community Freedom Public Charter School in Washington. Epps, Barratt, and Dyson served as part of Expedition 71 aboard the International Space Station. Photo Credit: (NASA/Joel Kowsky)
NASA Expedition 71 astronauts Michael Barratt, left, Tracy Dyson, Matthew Dominick, and Jeanette Epps, right, give a postflight presentation, Monday, March 3, 2025, at the Mary W. Jackson NASA Headquarters Building in Washington. Dominick, Epps, Barratt, and Dyson served as part of Expedition 71 aboard the International Space Station. Photo Credit: (NASA/Bill Ingalls)
NASA Expedition 71 astronauts Michael Barratt, left, Tracy Dyson, Matthew Dominick, and Jeanette Epps, right, give a postflight presentation, Monday, March 3, 2025, at the Mary W. Jackson NASA Headquarters Building in Washington. Dominick, Epps, Barratt, and Dyson served as part of Expedition 71 aboard the International Space Station. Photo Credit: (NASA/Bill Ingalls)
NASA Expedition 71 astronauts Michael Barratt, left, Tracy Dyson, Matthew Dominick, and Jeanette Epps, right, give a postflight presentation, Monday, March 3, 2025, at the Mary W. Jackson NASA Headquarters Building in Washington. Dominick, Epps, Barratt, and Dyson served as part of Expedition 71 aboard the International Space Station. Photo Credit: (NASA/Bill Ingalls)
Expedition 71 NASA astronauts Michael Barratt, left, Matthew Dominick, Jeanette Epps, and Tracy Dyson, speak to delegates of the U.S. Senate Youth Program, Wednesday, March 5, 2025 at the Mary W. Jackson NASA Headquarters Building in Washington. Dominick, Epps, Barratt, and Dyson served as part of Expedition 71 aboard the International Space Station. Photo Credit: (NASA/Joel Kowsky)
Expedition 71 NASA astronauts Matthew Dominick, left, Tracy Dyson, Michael Barratt and Nicole Ramberg-Pihl, project manager for NASA’s Earth Information Center, are seen during a tour of the Earth Information Center, Monday, March 3, 2025, at the Mary W. Jackson NASA Headquarters building in Washington. Dominick, Barratt, Dyson and Jeanette Epps served as part of Expedition 71 aboard the International Space Station. Photo Credit: (NASA/Joel Kowsky)
Expedition 71 NASA astronauts Jeanette Epps, left, Tracy Dyson, and Michael Barratt, speak to students, Wednesday, March 5, 2025 at Elsie Whitlow Stokes Community Freedom Public Charter School in Washington. Epps, Barratt, and Dyson served as part of Expedition 71 aboard the International Space Station. Photo Credit: (NASA/Joel Kowsky)
Expedition 71 NASA astronauts Michael Barratt, left, and Tracy Dyson, speak to students, Wednesday, March 5, 2025 at Elsie Whitlow Stokes Community Freedom Public Charter School in Washington. Barratt, Dyson, and fellow crewmates Matthew Dominick and Jeanette Epps served as part of Expedition 71 aboard the International Space Station. Photo Credit: (NASA/Joel Kowsky)
NASA Expedition 71 astronauts Michael Barratt, left, Tracy Dyson, Matthew Dominick, and Jeanette Epps, right, give a postflight presentation, Monday, March 3, 2025, at the Mary W. Jackson NASA Headquarters Building in Washington. Dominick, Epps, Barratt, and Dyson served as part of Expedition 71 aboard the International Space Station. Photo Credit: (NASA/Bill Ingalls)
NASA Expedition 71 astronauts Michael Barratt, left, Tracy Dyson, Matthew Dominick, and Jeanette Epps, right, give a postflight presentation, Monday, March 3, 2025, at the Mary W. Jackson NASA Headquarters Building in Washington. Dominick, Epps, Barratt, and Dyson served as part of Expedition 71 aboard the International Space Station. Photo Credit: (NASA/Bill Ingalls)
Spaceflight Participant Charles Simonyi, seated left, Expedition 19 Commander Gennady I. Padalka, seated center, and Flight Engineer Michael R. Barratt don their Russian Sokol suits in preparation for their Soyuz launch to the International Space Station on Thursday, March 26, 2009 in Baikonur, Kazakhstan. (Photo Credit: NASA/Bill Ingalls)
Spaceflight Participant Charles Simonyi receives the traditional blessing at the Cosmonaut Hotel on the morning of his Soyuz launch with Expedition 19 Expedition 19 Commander Gennady I. Padalka and Flight Engineer Michael R. Barratt to the International Space Station on Thursday, March 26, 2009 in Baikonur, Kazakhstan. (Photo Credit: NASA/Bill Ingalls)
Spaceflight Participant Charles Simonyi, left, Expedition 19 Commander Gennady I. Padalka, center, and Flight Engineer Michael R. Barratt don their Russian Sokol suits in preparation for their Soyuz launch to the International Space Station on Thursday, March 26, 2009 in Baikonur, Kazakhstan. (Photo Credit: NASA/Bill Ingalls)
Expedition 19 Commander Gennady I. Padalka receives the traditional blessing at the Cosmonaut Hotel on the morning of his Soyuz launch with Expedition 19 Flight Engineer Michael R. Barratt and Spaceflight Participant Charles Simonyi to the International Space Station on Thursday, March 26, 2009 in Baikonur, Kazakhstan. (Photo Credit: NASA/Bill Ingalls)
Expedition 19 Flight Engineer Michael R. Barratt receives the traditional blessing at the Cosmonaut Hotel on the morning of his Soyuz launch with Expedition 19 Commander Gennady I. Padalka and Spaceflight Participant Charles Simonyi to the International Space Station on Thursday, March 26, 2009 in Baikonur, Kazakhstan. (Photo Credit: NASA/Bill Ingalls)
Expedition 19 Flight Engineer Michael R. Barratt, left, Commander Gennady I. Padalka, center, and Spaceflight Participant Charles Simonyi pose for a photograph after the traditional tree planting ceremony at the Cosmonaut Hotel, Saturday, March 21, 2009 in Baikonur, Kazakhstan. (Photo Credit: NASA/Bill Ingalls)
Spaceflight Participant Charles Simonyi, left, Expedition 19 Commander Gennady I. Padalka, center, and Flight Engineer Michael R. Barratt salute officials prior to boarding the bus that will take them to the Soyuz launch pad on Thursday, March 26, 2009 in Baikonur, Kazakhstan. Photo Credit: NASA/Victor Zelentsov)
Spaceflight Participant Charles Simonyi, left, Expedition 19 Commander Gennady I. Padalka, center, and Flight Engineer Michael R. Barratt don their Russian Sokol suits in preparation for their Soyuz launch to the International Space Station on Thursday, March 26, 2009 in Baikonur, Kazakhstan. (Photo Credit: NASA/Bill Ingalls)
Expedition 19 Commander Gennady I. Padalka, left, Flight Engineer Michael R. Barratt, right, and Spaceflight Participant Charles Simonyi, 2nd row right, along with cosmonaut instructors are seen through a quarantine windowed room as they participate in Soyuz rendezvous and docking training at the Cosmonaut Hotel, Saturday, March 21, 2009 in Baikonur, Kazakhstan. (Photo Credit: NASA/Bill Ingalls)
Expedition 19 Flight Engineer Michael R. Barratt performs the traditional door signing at the Cosmonaut Hotel on the morning of his Soyuz launch with Expedition 19 Commander Gennady I. Padalka and Spaceflight Participant Charles Simonyi to the International Space Station on Thursday, March 26, 2009 in Baikonur, Kazakhstan. (Photo Credit: NASA/Bill Ingalls)
Expedition 19 Flight Engineer Michael R. Barratt waits to have his Russian Sokol suit pressure checked in preparation for his Soyuz launch to the International Space Station with Expedition 19 Commander Gennady I. Padalka and Spaceflight Participant Charles Simonyi on Thursday, March 26, 2009 in Baikonur, Kazakhstan. (Photo Credit: NASA/Bill Ingalls)
Expedition 19 Flight Engineer Michael R. Barratt waits to have his Russian Sokol suit pressure checked in preparation for his Soyuz launch to the International Space Station with Expedition 19 Commander Gennady I. Padalka and Spaceflight Participant Charles Simonyi on Thursday, March 26, 2009 in Baikonur, Kazakhstan. (Photo Credit: NASA/Bill Ingalls)
Expedition 19 Flight Engineer Michael R. Barratt raises his arm to the crowd of well wishers as he and Spaceflight Participant Charles Simonyi, left, and Commander Gennady I. Padalka depart the Cosmonaut hotel and board the bus that will take them to building 254 in preparation for their Soyuz launch to the International Space Station on Thursday, March 26, 2009 in Baikonur, Kazakhstan. (Photo Credit: NASA/Bill Ingalls)
Expedition 19 Flight Engineer Michael R. Barratt listens to instructions prior to having his Russian Sokol suit pressure checked in preparation for his Soyuz launch to the International Space Station with Commander Gennady I. Padalka and Spaceflight Participant Charles Simonyi on Thursday, March 26, 2009 in Baikonur, Kazakhstan. (Photo Credit: NASA/Bill Ingalls)
Expedition 19 Flight Engineer Michael R. Barratt is seen on the bus outside the Cosmonaut Hotel as he, Commander Gennady I. Padalka and Spaceflight Participant Charles Simonyi depart the hotel for building 254 where they will don their flights suits in preparation for their Soyuz launch to the International Space Station on Thursday, March 26, 2009 in Baikonur, Kazakhstan. (Photo Credit: NASA/Bill Ingalls)
Expedition 19 Commander Gennady I. Padalka, 3rd from left, Flight Engineer Michael R. Barratt, 4th from left, and Spaceflight Participant Charles Simonyi, far right, along with cosmonaut instructors are seen through a quarantine windowed room as they participate in Soyuz rendezvous and docking training at the Cosmonaut Hotel, Saturday, March 21, 2009 in Baikonur, Kazakhstan. (Photo Credit: NASA/Bill Ingalls)
Seated left to right, Spaceflight participant Guy Laliberté, Expedition 20 Commander Gennady Padalka, Expedition 20 Flight Engineer Michael Barratt sit in chairs outside the Soyuz Capsule just minutes after they landed near the town of Arkalyk, Kazakhstan on Sunday, Oct. 11, 2009. Padalka and Barratt are returning from six months onboard the International Space Station, along with Laliberté who arrived at the station on Oct. 2 with Expedition 21 Flight Engineers Jeff Williams and Maxim Suraev aboard the Soyuz TMA-16 spacecraft. Photo Credit: (NASA/Bill Ingalls)
Expedition 20 Flight Engineer Michael Barratt, left, and Expedition 20 Commander Gennady Padalka, right, are carried in chairs to the medical tent shortly after they and Spaceflight participant Guy Laliberté landed in their Soyuz TMA-14 capsule near the town of Arkalyk, Kazakhstan on Sunday, Oct. 11, 2009. Padalka and Barratt are returning from six months onboard the International Space Station, along with Laliberté who arrived at the station on Oct. 2 with Expedition 21 Flight Engineers Jeff Williams and Maxim Suraev aboard the Soyuz TMA-16 spacecraft. Photo Credit: (NASA/Bill Ingalls)
Seated left to right, Spaceflight participant Guy Laliberté, Expedition 20 Commander Gennady Padalka, Expedition 20 Flight Engineer Michael Barratt sit in chairs outside the Soyuz Capsule just minutes they landed near the town of Arkalyk, Kazakhstan on Sunday, Oct. 11, 2009. Padalka and Barratt are returning from six months onboard the International Space Station, along with Laliberté who arrived at the station on Oct. 2 with Expedition 21 Flight Engineers Jeff Williams and Maxim Suraev aboard the Soyuz TMA-16 spacecraft. Photo Credit: (NASA/Bill Ingalls)
Roscosmos cosmonaut Alexander Grebenkin, left, NASA astronauts Michael Barratt, second from left, Matthew Dominick, second from right, and Jeanette Epps, right are seen inside the SpaceX Dragon Endeavour spacecraft onboard the SpaceX recovery ship MEGAN shortly after having landed in the Gulf of Mexico off the coast of Pensacola, Florida, Friday, Oct. 25, 2024. Dominick, Barratt, Epps, Grebenkin are returning after seven-months in space as part of Expedition 70 aboard the International Space Station. Photo Credit: (NASA/Joel Kowsky)
U.S. Senate Youth Program delegate Sophia Fu of Indiana introduces Expedition 71 NASA astronauts Michael Barratt, Matthew Dominick, Jeanette Epps, and Tracy Dyson, Wednesday, March 5, 2025 at the Mary W. Jackson NASA Headquarters Building in Washington. Dominick, Epps, Barratt, and Dyson served as part of Expedition 71 aboard the International Space Station. Photo Credit: (NASA/Joel Kowsky)
U.S. Senate Youth Program delegates Sarah Gao of California, left, and Sophia Fu of Indiana, introduce Expedition 71 NASA astronauts Michael Barratt, Matthew Dominick, Jeanette Epps, and Tracy Dyson, Wednesday, March 5, 2025 at the Mary W. Jackson NASA Headquarters Building in Washington. Dominick, Epps, Barratt, and Dyson served as part of Expedition 71 aboard the International Space Station. Photo Credit: (NASA/Joel Kowsky)
U.S. Senate Youth Program delegates Sarah Gao of California, second from left, and Sophia Fu of Indiana, left, introduce Expedition 71 NASA astronauts Michael Barratt, Matthew Dominick, Jeanette Epps, and Tracy Dyson, Wednesday, March 5, 2025 at the Mary W. Jackson NASA Headquarters Building in Washington. Dominick, Epps, Barratt, and Dyson served as part of Expedition 71 aboard the International Space Station. Photo Credit: (NASA/Joel Kowsky)
Expedition 19 prime and backup crew from left, backup Spaceflight Participant Esther Dyson, Flight Engineer Michael R. Barratt, Backup Commander Jeffrey Williams, Commander Gennady I. Padalka, backup Flight Engineer Maxim Suraev and Spaceflight Participant Charles Simonyi look at teh view from the Cosmonaut Hotel, Saturday, March 21, 2009 in Baikonur, Kazakhstan. (Photo Credit: NASA/Bill Ingalls)
Spaceflight Participant Charles Simonyi, seated left, Expedition 19 Commander Gennady I. Padalka, seated center, Flight Engineer Michael R. Barratt, seated right, backup spaceflight participant Esther Dyson, standing left, backup Expedition 19 flight engineer Maxim Suraev, standing center, and backup commander Jeffrey Williams prepare to talk with space agency officials prior to the launch on Thursday, March 26, 2009 in Baikonur, Kazakhstan. Photo Credit: (NASA/Bill Ingalls)
STS-133 Commander Steven Lindsey, far left, presents a montage to President Barack Obama as crew members Michael Barratt, Pilot Eric Boe, Nicole Stott, and Stephen Bowen look on during a visit to the Oval Office in the White House, Monday, May 9, 2011, in Washington. Also in attendance but not seen, was Mission Specialist Alvin Drew. Photo Credit: (NASA/Paul E. Alers)
SpaceX’s Dragon spacecraft for NASA’s SpaceX Crew-8 mission is mated to the company's Falcon 9 rocket at SpaceX’s hangar at Kennedy Space Center’s Launch Complex 39A in Florida on Friday, Feb. 23, 2024, at Cape Canaveral Space Force Station. NASA astronauts Matthew Dominick, Michael Barratt, and Jeanette Epps, and Roscosmos cosmonaut Alexander Grebenkin are slated to launch to the International Space Station no earlier than 12:04 a.m. EST on March 1, 2024.
Spaceflight Participant Charles Simonyi, waving on left, Expedition 19 Commander Gennady I. Padalka, center, and Flight Engineer Michael R. Barratt depart the Cosmonaut hotel and board the bus that will take them to building 254 in preparation for their Soyuz launch to the International Space Station on Thursday, March 26, 2009 in Baikonur, Kazakhstan. (Photo Credit: NASA/Bill Ingalls)
SpaceX’s Dragon spacecraft for NASA’s SpaceX Crew-8 mission is mated to the company's Falcon 9 rocket at SpaceX’s hangar at Kennedy Space Center’s Launch Complex 39A in Florida on Friday, Feb. 23, 2024, at Cape Canaveral Space Force Station. NASA astronauts Matthew Dominick, Michael Barratt, and Jeanette Epps, and Roscosmos cosmonaut Alexander Grebenkin are slated to launch to the International Space Station no earlier than 12:04 a.m. EST on March 1, 2024.