NASA Administrator Charles Bolden, left, is seen with Doug King, president and CEO of the Museum of Flight in Seattle, Washington on Tuesday, Jan. 15, 2013. Bolden toured the Space Shuttle Trainer Crew Compartment in the Charles Simonyi Space Gallery at the museum. Photo Credit: (NASA/Carla Cioffi)

NASA Administrator Charles Bolden is seen as he peers through the hatch opening of the Space Shuttle Trainer Crew Compartment while on a tour of the Museum of Flight, Tuesday, Jan. 15, 2013 in Seattle, Washington. Photo Credit: (NASA/Carla Cioffi)

NASA Administrator Charles Bolden poses in front of the Space Shuttle Trainer Crew Compartment in the Charles Simonyi Space Gallery while on a tour at the Museum of Flight on Tuesday, Jan. 15, 2013 in Seattle, Washington. Photo Credit: (NASA/Carla Cioffi)

Bolden Tours Seattle Museum of Flight

NASA Administrator Charles Bolden, second from left, is seen with Washington Aerospace Scholars Brenna Tuller-Ross, far left, and Alec Lindsey as they escort him on a tour of the Museum of Flight, Tuesday, Jan. 15, 2013 in Seattle, Washington. Photo Credit: (NASA/Carla Cioffi)

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NASA Administrator Charles Bolden, left, is seen with former NASA astronaut John Creighton in the Space Shuttle Trainer Crew Compartment in the Charles Simonyi Space Gallery while on a tour at the Museum of Flight on Tuesday, Jan. 15, 2013 in Seattle, Washington. Photo Credit: (NASA/Carla Cioffi)

Bolden Tours Seattle Museum of Flight

NASA Administrator Charles Bolden, third from left, is seen as he is escorted on a tour of the Space Shuttle Trainer Crew Compartment in the Charles Simonyi Space Gallery at the Museum of Flight, Tuesday, Jan. 15, 2013 in Seattle, Washington. Bolden is joined by Washington Aerospace Scholars Alec Lindsey, far left, Brenna Tuller-Ross and Doug King, far right, president and CEO of the museum. Photo Credit: (NASA/Carla Cioffi)

Workers move the Lunar Landing Research Vehicle, or LLRV, into the Edwards Air Force Base Flight Test Museum in California for temporary display.

NASA Lends Space Artifacts to Air Force Museum

Workers drive the space shuttle Crew Transport Vehicle, or CTV, to the Edwards Air Force Base Flight Test Museum in California for display.

NASA Lends Space Artifacts to Air Force Museum

Hubble Legacy National Air and Space Museum

Robert Strain, Director of NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center speaks, Wednesday evening, Sept. 9, 2009, during a celebration of the Hubble Legacy at the National Air and Space Museum in Washington. Astronomers declared NASA's Hubble Space Telescope a fully rejuvenated observatory with the release Wednesday of observations from four of its six operating science instruments. Photo Credit: (NASA/Bill Ingalls)

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Flight Engineer and NASA Science Officer Mike Fincke prepares to sign a photograph in the space museum located at the Baikonur Cosmodrome, Wednesday, April 14, 2004, in Baikonur, Kazakhstan. Photo Credit: (NASA/Bill Ingalls)

Expedition 9 Preflight Activities

Expedition 10 Preflight

Flight Engineer and Soyuz Commander Salizhan Sharipov tours a museum bearing the name of historic Russian rocket designer Sergei Korolev, Saturday, October 9, 2004, at the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan in advance of their liftoff to the International Space Station October 14. The traditional visit included the signing of their names in commemorative books and a wall at the museum, and touring the cottages nearby where Korolev and Yuri Gagarin slept on the eve of Gagarin's launch April 12, 1961 to become the first human in space. Photo Credit: (NASA/Bill Ingalls)

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jsc2018e025598 - In the Korolev Museum at the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan, Expedition 55 crewmembers Ricky Arnold of NASA (left), Oleg Artemyev of Roscosmos (center) and Drew Feustel of NASA (right) display the Russian Sokol launch and entry suit worn by Artemyev during his first flight into space in 2014 as part of the Expedition 39-40 crew. Artemyev is donating the suit to the museum as an historical artifact. The crewmembers will launch March 21 on the Soyuz MS-08 spacecraft for a five-month mission on the International Space Station...NASA/Victor Zelentsov.

NASA STS-132 Air and Space Museum

Dr. John Mather, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center scientist and Nobel Laureate, center, presents Gen. John R. “Jack” Dailey, director of the Smithsonian National Air and Space Museum, left, with a a replica of Mather’s Nobel Prize medal that flew in space aboard STS-132, as astronaut Piers Sellers looks on, during a ceremony at the museum, Tuesday, July 27, 2010, in Washington. Photo Credit: (NASA/Paul E. Alers)

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At the historic museum near the launch pad at the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan, Expedition 31/32 Flight Engineer Joe Acaba of NASA adds his name to the “Wall of Signatures” May 11, 2012 during a traditional museum tour prior to his launch May 15 along with Soyuz Commander Gennady Padalka and Flight Engineer Sergei Revin in their Soyuz TMA-04M spacecraft to begin a four-month mission on the International Space Station. The wall, which is adorned with a life-size picture of a Soyuz rocket, is signed by all crewmembers who launch into space on the Russian booster. NASA/Victor Zelentsov

2022 Michael Collins Trophy Presentation

Interim director of NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory Lt. Gen. Larry James, USAF (Ret.), second from right, accepts the 2022 Michael Collins Trophy for Current Achievement from Christopher Browne, acting director of the Smithsonian’s National Air and Space Museum, right, on behalf of MiMi Aung and the Mars Ingenuity Helicopter Team, Thursday, March 24, 2022, at the Smithsonian National Air and Space Museum’s Steven F. Udvar-Hazy center in Chantilly, Va. Pictured with James and Browne are Dave Lavery, program executive for Solar System Exploration at NASA Headquarters, left, Joshua Anderson, Ingenuity Mars Helicopter tactical lead at NASA JPL, second from left, and Gerik Kubiak, Ingenuity Mars Helicopter flight software lead at NASA JPL, center. The Smithsonian National Air and Space Museum’s Michael Collins Trophy recognizes extraordinary accomplishments in aeronautics and spaceflight. Photo Credit: (NASA/Joel Kowsky)

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At the Korolev Museum in the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan, the prime and backup crews preparing for launch to the International Space Station to round out the Expedition 30 crew pose for pictures December 16, 2011 as they wrap up training for launch on Dec. 21 on the Soyuz TMA-03M spacecraft. From left to right are backup Flight Engineer Aki Hoshide of the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency, backup Flight Engineer Suni Williams of NASA, backup Soyuz Commander Yuri Malenchenko, the host greeting the crew in the museum, prime Soyuz Commander Oleg Kononenko, prime Flight Engineer Andre Kuipers of the European Space Agency and prime Flight Engineer Don Pettit of NASA. Kononenko, Kuipers and Pettit will spend five and a half months on the complex. Credit: NASA

Astronaut Auñón-Chancellor at NASM

Smithsonian National Air and Space Museum curator Jennifer Levasseu speaks with NASA astronaut Serena Auñón-Chancellor about her time onboard the International Space Station during "What's New in Aerospace" Friday, June 14, 2019 the Smithsonian's National Air and Space Museum in Washington, DC. Auñón-Chancellor spent 197 days living and working onboard the orbital laboratory as part of Expeditions 56 and 57, contributing to hundreds of experiments in biology, biotechnology, physical science, and Earth science while there. She began her career at NASA as a flight surgeon before being selected as an astronaut in 2009. Photo Credit: (NASA/Joel Kowsky)

Astronaut Auñón-Chancellor at NASM

Marty Kelsey of the Smithsonian National Air and Space Museum asks NASA astronaut Serena Auñón-Chancellor questions about being in middle school for a short video, Friday, June 14, 2019 the Smithsonian's National Air and Space Museum in Washington, DC. Auñón-Chancellor spent 197 days living and working onboard the orbital laboratory as part of Expeditions 56 and 57, contributing to hundreds of experiments in biology, biotechnology, physical science, and Earth science while there. She began her career at NASA as a flight surgeon before being selected as an astronaut in 2009. Photo Credit: (NASA/Joel Kowsky)

Astronaut Auñón-Chancellor at NASM

Smithsonian National Air and Space Museum curator Jennifer Levasseu speaks with NASA astronaut Serena Auñón-Chancellor about her time onboard the International Space Station during "What's New in Aerospace" Friday, June 14, 2019 the Smithsonian's National Air and Space Museum in Washington, DC. Auñón-Chancellor spent 197 days living and working onboard the orbital laboratory as part of Expeditions 56 and 57, contributing to hundreds of experiments in biology, biotechnology, physical science, and Earth science while there. She began her career at NASA as a flight surgeon before being selected as an astronaut in 2009. Photo Credit: (NASA/Joel Kowsky)

Expedition 10 Preflight

Expedition 10 Commander and NASA Science Officer Leroy Chiao, right, Flight Engineer and Soyuz Commander Salizhan Sharipov and Russian Space Forces cosmonaut Yuri Shargin, left, toured a museum bearing the name of historic Russian rocket designer Sergei Korolev, Saturday, October 9, 2004, at the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan in advance of their liftoff to the International Space Station October 14. The traditional visit included the signing of their names in commemorative books and a wall at the museum, and touring the cottages nearby where Korolev and Yuri Gagarin slept on the eve of Gagarin's launch April 12, 1961 to become the first human in space. Photo Credit: (NASA/Bill Ingalls)

Astronaut Auñón-Chancellor at NASM

Smithsonian National Air and Space Museum curator Jennifer Levasseu speaks with NASA astronaut Serena Auñón-Chancellor about her time onboard the International Space Station during "What's New in Aerospace" Friday, June 14, 2019 the Smithsonian's National Air and Space Museum in Washington, DC. Auñón-Chancellor spent 197 days living and working onboard the orbital laboratory as part of Expeditions 56 and 57, contributing to hundreds of experiments in biology, biotechnology, physical science, and Earth science while there. She began her career at NASA as a flight surgeon before being selected as an astronaut in 2009. Photo Credit: (NASA/Joel Kowsky)

Astronaut Auñón-Chancellor at NASM

Smithsonian National Air and Space Museum curator Jennifer Levasseu speaks with NASA astronaut Serena Auñón-Chancellor about her time onboard the International Space Station during "What's New in Aerospace" Friday, June 14, 2019 the Smithsonian's National Air and Space Museum in Washington, DC. Auñón-Chancellor spent 197 days living and working onboard the orbital laboratory as part of Expeditions 56 and 57, contributing to hundreds of experiments in biology, biotechnology, physical science, and Earth science while there. She began her career at NASA as a flight surgeon before being selected as an astronaut in 2009. Photo Credit: (NASA/Joel Kowsky)

Astronaut Auñón-Chancellor at NASM

Smithsonian National Air and Space Museum curator Jennifer Levasseu speaks with NASA astronaut Serena Auñón-Chancellor about her time onboard the International Space Station during "What's New in Aerospace" Friday, June 14, 2019 the Smithsonian's National Air and Space Museum in Washington, DC. Auñón-Chancellor spent 197 days living and working onboard the orbital laboratory as part of Expeditions 56 and 57, contributing to hundreds of experiments in biology, biotechnology, physical science, and Earth science while there. She began her career at NASA as a flight surgeon before being selected as an astronaut in 2009. Photo Credit: (NASA/Joel Kowsky)

Spirit of Apollo: 50th Anniversary of Apollo 8

Apollo 8 astronaut Jim Lovell, left, Andrew Johnston, Vice President for Astronomy and Collections at Chicago's Adler Planetarium, center, and Ellen Stofan, Director of the Smithsonian's National Air and Space Museum, right, look at Lovell's Apollo 8 flight plan during the Smithsonian National Air and Space Museum's Spirit of Apollo event commemorating the 50th anniversary of Apollo 8, Tuesday, Dec. 11, 2018 at the Washington National Cathedral in Washington, DC. Apollo 8 was humanity's first journey to another world, taking astronauts Frank Borman, Jim Lovell, and William Anders to the Moon and back in December of 1968. Photo Credit: (NASA/Joel Kowsky)

Spirit of Apollo: 50th Anniversary of Apollo 8

Ellen Stofan, Director of Smithsonian's National Air and Space Museum, left, and NASA Administrator Jim Bridenstine look at Jim Lovell's Apollo 8 flight plan with Andrew Johnston, Vice President for Astronomy and Collections at Chicago's Adler Planetarium, during the Smithsonian National Air and Space Museum's Spirit of Apollo event commemorating the 50th anniversary of Apollo 8, Tuesday, Dec. 11, 2018 at the Washington National Cathedral in Washington, DC. Apollo 8 was humanity's first journey to another world, taking astronauts Frank Borman, Jim Lovell, and William Anders to the Moon and back in December of 1968. Photo Credit: (NASA/Joel Kowsky)

Shuttle Enterprise Flight to New York

CAPTION: ---------------------------- Space shuttle Enterprise, mounted atop a NASA 747 Shuttle Carrier Aircraft (SCA), is seen as it flies near the Intrepid Sea, Air and Space Museum, Friday, April 27, 2012, in New York. Enterprise was the first shuttle orbiter built for NASA performing test flights in the atmosphere and was incapable of spaceflight. Originally housed at the Smithsonian's Steven F. Udvar-Hazy Center, Enterprise will be demated from the SCA and placed on a barge that will eventually be moved by tugboat up the Hudson River to the Intrepid Sea, Air & Space Museum in June. Photo Credit: (NASA/Robert Markowitz)

Expedition 10 Preflight

Expedition 10 Commander and NASA Science Officer Leroy Chiao, center and Flight Engineer and Soyuz Commander Salizhan Sharipov toured a museum bearing the name of historic Russian rocket designer Sergei Korolev October 9, 2004 at the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan in advance of their liftoff to the International Space Station October 14. The traditional visit included the signing of their names in commemorative books and a wall at the museum, and touring the cottages nearby where Korolev and Yuri Gagarin slept on the eve of Gagarin's launch April 12, 1961 to become the first human in space. Photo Credit: (NASA/Bill Ingalls)

The Orion crew module flown on NASA’s Pad Abort-1 (PA-1) flight test is shown on display and NASA Astronaut Nicholas Patrick speaks at an event at the Pima Air and Space Museum in Tucson, Arizona, on June 16, 2011. Part of Batch image transfer from Flickr.

Air and Space Museum Apollo 40th Celebration

Space Shuttle Enterprise Move to Intrepid

The Orion crew module flown on NASA’s Pad Abort-1 (PA-1) flight test is shown on display during an event at the Pima Air and Space Museum in Tucson, Arizona, on June 16, 2011. Part of Batch image transfer from Flickr.

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Space Shuttle Enterprise Move to Intrepid

At the historic museum near the launch pad at the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan, the Expedition 31/32 backup and prime crews pose for pictures May 11, 2012 in front of the mural depicting the likeness of Yuri Gagarin, the first human to fly in space. The photo session took place as training for the launch of Soyuz Commander Gennady Padalka, Flight Engineer Joe Acaba of NASA and Flight Engineer Sergei Revin drew to a close for their liftoff May 15 in their Soyuz TMA-04 spacecraft to begin a four-month mission on the International Space Station. From left to right are backup crewmembers Oleg Novitskiy, Kevin Ford of NASA and Evgeny Tarelkin, and the prime crew, Padalka, Revin and Acaba. In the foreground are replicas of the small cottages Gagarin and the Russian space program’s “Great Designer”, Sergei Korolev slept in on the eve of Gagarin’s launch on April 12, 1961. The real cottages are located near the museum in Baikonur. NASA/Victor Zelentsov

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13-47-46-2: At the Korolev Museum at the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan, Expedition 38/39 Flight Engineer Rick Mastracchio of NASA signs a wall mural of a Soyuz rocket launch during traditional pre-flight activities Nov. 3. Mastracchio, Soyuz Commander Mikhail Tyurin and Flight Engineer Koichi Wakata of the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency will launch Nov. 7, Kazakh time, on the Soyuz TMA-11M spacecraft for a six-month mission on the International Space Station. NASA/Victor Zelentsov

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13-48-12: At the Korolev Museum at the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan, Expedition 38/39 Flight Engineer Koichi Wakata of the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency signs a wall mural of a Soyuz rocket launch during traditional pre-flight activities Nov. 3. Wakata, Soyuz Commander Mikhail Tyurin and Flight Engineer Rick Mastracchio of NASA will launch Nov. 7, Kazakh time, on the Soyuz TMA-11M spacecraft for a six-month mission on the International Space Station. NASA/Victor Zelentsov

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At the Gagarin Museum located at the Gagarin Cosmonaut Training Center in Star City, Russia, Expedition 38/39 Flight Engineer Rick Mastracchio of NASA studies a model of a Soyuz spacecraft during a tour October 22, 2013. Mastracchio, Flight Engineer Koichi Wakata of the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency and Soyuz Commander Mikhail Tyurin will launch Nov. 7, Kazakh time from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan on the Soyuz TMA-11M spacecraft for the start of a six-month mission on the International Space Station. NASA/Stephanie Stoll

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At the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan, Expedition 36/37 Flight Engineer Karen Nyberg of NASA signs a mural depicting a Soyuz rocket launch in the Korolev Museum May 24 following the final “fit check” dress rehearsal before launch. Nyberg, Flight Engineer Luca Parmitano of the European Space Agency and Soyuz Commander Fyodor Yurchikhin are preparing for launch May 29, Kazakh time, in the Soyuz TMA-09M spacecraft to begin a 5 ½ month mission on the International Space Station. NASA/Victor Zelentsov

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At the Korolev Museum in the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan, Expedition 30 Flight Engineer Don Pettit of NASA signs a picture of a Soyuz rocket December 16, 2011 as he and his Expedition 30 crewmates enter the final days of preparations for launch December 21 on their Soyuz TMA-03M spacecraft. Pettit, Soyuz Commander Oleg Kononenko and Flight Engineer Andre Kuipers of the European Space Agency will spend five and a half months on the station. Credit: NASA

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At the Gagarin Cosmonaut Training Center in Star City, Russia, Expedition 35-36 Flight Engineer Chris Cassidy of NASA (right), and his backup, NASA’s Michael Hopkins tour the Gagarin Museum during a traditional tour March 7. Cassidy, Soyuz Commander Pavel Vinogradov and Flight Engineer Alexander Misurkin will launch to the International Space Station March 29, Kazakh time, on their Soyuz TMA-08M spacecraft from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan. NASA / Stephanie Stoll

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At the Gagarin Museum at the Gagarin Cosmonaut Training Center in Star City, Russia, Expedition 35-36 Flight Engineer Chris Cassidy of NASA (right) signs a ceremonial book March 7 during traditional pre-launch activities as his crewmate, Soyuz Commander Pavel Vinogradov (left) looks on. Cassidy, Vinogradov and Flight Engineer Alexander Misurkin will launch to the International Space Station March 29, Kazakh time, in their Soyuz TMA-08M spacecraft from the Baikonur Cosomodrome in Kazakhstan. NASA / Stephanie Stoll

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At the Korolev Museum at the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan, Expedition 34/35 Flight Engineer Tom Marshburn of NASA signs a mural of a Soyuz spacecraft launch Dec. 14, 2012, part of a tradition for all space travelers launching from the Central Asian spaceport. Marshburn, Soyuz Commander Roman Romanenko and Flight Engineer Chris Hadfield of the Canadian Space Agency will launch Dec. 19 in the Soyuz TMA-07M spacecraft from Baikonur for a five-month mission on the International Space Station. NASA/Victor Zelentsov

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At the Korolev Museum at the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan, Expedition 34/35 Flight Engineer Chris Hadfield of the Canadian Space Agency signs a mural of a Soyuz spacecraft launch Dec. 14, 2012, part of a tradition for all space travelers launching from the Central Asian spaceport. Hadfield, Soyuz Commander Roman Romanenko and Flight Engineer Tom Marshburn of NASA will launch Dec. 19 in the Soyuz TMA-07M spacecraft from Baikonur for a five-month mission on the International Space Station. NASA/Victor Zelentsov

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13-02-48-2: In the Baikonur Cosmodrome Museum in Kazakhstan, Expedition 39/40 Flight Engineer Steve Swanson of NASA signs a wall mural March 21 to honor a tradition as he and his crewmates prepare for launch to the International Space Station. Swanson, Soyuz Commander Alexander Skvortsov of Roscosmos and Flight Engineer Oleg Artemyev of Roscosmos are wrapping up training for their launch to the station March 26, Kazakh time, on the Soyuz TMA-12 spacecraft for a six-month mission on the orbital laboratory. NASA/Victor Zelentsov

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Expedition 33/34 Flight Engineer Kevin Ford of NASA (left), Soyuz Commander Oleg Novitskiy (center) and Flight Engineer Evgeny Tarelkin (right) pose for pictures in front of a model of Sputnik 1, the world’s first artificial satellite, in the Korolev Museum at the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan October 18, 2012. The trio completed a final “fit check” dress rehearsal, preparing for launch October 23 in their Soyuz TMA-06M spacecraft from the Cosmodrome for a five-month mission on the International Space Station. NASA/Victor Zelentsov

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Touring the Korolev Museum at the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan, Expedition 37/38 Flight Engineer Michael Hopkins of NASA signs a wall mural depicting a Soyuz rocket Sept. 20 as he and his crewmates, Soyuz Commander Oleg Kotov and Flight Engineer Sergey Ryazanskiy completed a final “fit check” inspection of their Soyuz TMA-10M spacecraft. Hopkins, Kotov and Ryazanskiy are preparing for launch Sept. 26, Kazakh time, to begin a five and a half month mission on the International Space Station. NASA/Victor Zelentsov