NASA astronaut Scott Tingle, center, listens, along with NASA Interpreter Evgeny Sokol, left, and NASA Flight Surgeon Rainer Effenhauser during a Karaganda Airport welcome ceremony in Kazakhstan on Sunday, June 3, 2018. Tingle, along with Roscosmos cosmonaut Anton Shkaplerov, and Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) Norishige Kanai are returning after 168 days in space where they served as members of the Expedition 54 and 55 crews onboard the International Space Station. Photo Credit: (NASA/Bill Ingalls)

NASA astronaut Don Pettit, center, walks and smiles, while supported by NASA Flight Surgeons Quinn Dufurrena, left, Rainer Effenhauser, right, and Richard Scheuring, background, during a brief layover in Prestwick, Scotland during his return flight to Houston from Karaganda, Kazakhstan, Sunday, April 20, 2025. Pettit, along with Roscosmos cosmonauts Alexey Ovchinin, and Ivan Vagner, returned to Earth earlier in the day after logging 220 days in space as members of Expeditions 71 and 72 aboard the International Space Station. Photo Credit: (NASA/Bill Ingalls)

NASA astronaut Mark Vande Hei is seen outside the Soyuz MS-19 spacecraft after he landed with Russian cosmonauts Anton Shkaplerov and Pyotr Dubrov in a remote area near the town of Zhezkazgan, Kazakhstan on Wednesday, March 30, 2022. Vande Hei and Dubrov are returning to Earth after logging 355 days in space as members of Expeditions 64-66 aboard the International Space Station. For Vande Hei, his mission is the longest single spaceflight by a U.S. astronaut in history. Shkaplerov is returning after 176 days in space, serving as a Flight Engineer for Expedition 65 and commander of Expedition 66. Photo Credit: (NASA/Bill Ingalls)

Expedition 66 crew members Mark Vande Hei of NASA, left, and cosmonauts Anton Shkaplerov, center, and Pyotr Dubrov of Roscosmos, sit in chairs outside the Soyuz MS-19 spacecraft after they landed in a remote area near the town of Zhezkazgan, Kazakhstan on Wednesday, March 30, 2022. Vande Hei and Dubrov are returning to Earth after logging 355 days in space as members of Expeditions 64-66 aboard the International Space Station. For Vande Hei, his mission is the longest single spaceflight by a U.S. astronaut in history. Shkaplerov is returning after 176 days in space, serving as a Flight Engineer for Expedition 65 and commander of Expedition 66. Photo Credit: (NASA/Bill Ingalls)