Ceremonial Kazakh hats and robes are laid out to be presented to Expedition 39 Commander Koichi Wakata of the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA), Soyuz Commander Mikhail Tyurin of Roscosmos, and Flight Engineer Rick Mastracchio of NASA at a welcome ceremony, Wednesday, May 14, 2014 at the Karaganda Airport in Kazakhstan. Wakata, Tyurin and Mastracchio returned to Earth after more than six months onboard the International Space Station where they served as members of the Expedition 38 and 39 crews. Photo Credit: (NASA/Bill Ingalls)

Expedition 23 Flight Engineer T.J. Creamer, left, Commander Oleg Kotov, center, and Flight Engineer Soichi Noguchi wear ceremonial Kazakhstan hats and robes presented to them during a welcome home ceremony held at the Karaganda airport in Karaganda, Kazakhstan on Wednesday, June 2, 2010. NASA Astronaut Creamer, Russian Cosmonaut Kotov and Japanese Astronaut Noguchi landed their Soyuz TMA-17 Capsule near the town of Zhezkazgan, Kazakhstan and returned from six months onboard the International Space Station where they served as members of the Expedition 22 and 23 crews. Photo Credit: (NASA/Bill Ingalls)

Expedition 39 Commander Koichi Wakata of the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) is seen wearing a ceremonial Kazakh hat and robe and holding a matryoshka doll presented to him during a welcome home ceremony, Wednesday, May 14, 2014 at the Karaganda Airport in Kazakhstan. Wakata, Expedition 39 Soyuz Commander Mikhail Tyurin of Roscosmos, and Flight Engineer Rick Mastracchio of NASA landed in their Soyuz TMA-11M spacecraft just a few hours earlier near the town of Zhezkazgan. Wakata, Tyurin and Mastracchio returned to Earth after more than six months onboard the International Space Station where they served as members of the Expedition 38 and 39 crews. Photo Credit: (NASA/Bill Ingalls)

jsc2017e040350 (April 7, 2017) --- In Baikonur, Kazakhstan, Expedition 51 backup crewmembers Sergey Ryazanskiy of the Russian Federal Space Agency (Roscosmos, center) and Randy Bresnik of NASA (right) sample local tea in a traditional Kazakh “yurt” or tent April 7 while wearing traditional Kazakh robes and hats. They are serving as backups to Fyodor Yurchikhin of Roscosmos and Jack Fischer of NASA, who will launch April 20 on the Soyuz MS-04 spacecraft from the Baikonur Cosmodrome for a four and a half month mission on the International Space Station. NASA/Victor Zelentsov

Expedition 23 Flight Engineer T.J. Creamer, left, Commander Oleg Kotov, center, and Flight Engineer Soichi Noguchi wear ceremonial Kazakhstan hats and robes presented to them during a welcome home ceremony held at the Karaganda airport in Karaganda, Kazakhstan on Wednesday, June 2, 2010. NASA Astronaut Creamer, Russian Cosmonaut Kotov and Japanese Astronaut Noguchi landed their Soyuz TMA-17 Capsule near the town of Zhezkazgan, Kazakhstan and returned from six months onboard the International Space Station where they served as members of the Expedition 22 and 23 crews. Photo Credit: (NASA/Bill Ingalls)

Expedition 39 Soyuz Commander Mikhail Tyurin of Roscosmos is seen wearing a ceremonial Kazakh hat and robe presented to him during a welcome home ceremony, Wednesday, May 14, 2014 at the Karaganda Airport in Kazakhstan. Tyurin, Expedition 39 Commander Koichi Wakata of the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA), and Flight Engineer Rick Mastracchio of NASA landed in their Soyuz TMA-11M spacecraft just a few hours earlier near the town of Zhezkazgan. Wakata, Tyurin and Mastracchio returned to Earth after more than six months onboard the International Space Station where they served as members of the Expedition 38 and 39 crews. Photo Credit: (NASA/Bill Ingalls)