Chief, State Organization, Gagarin Research and Test Cosmonaut Training Center, Sergei Krikalev, speaks during the State Commission meeting to approve the Soyuz launch of Expedition 36 Soyuz Commander Fyodor Yurchikhin of the Russian Federal Space Agency (Roscosmos), Flight Engineers; Karen Nyberg of NASA, and Luca Parmitano at the Cosmonaut Hotel, Monday, May 27, 2013, in Kazakhstan. Photo credit: (NASA/Bill Ingalls)

Michael Suffredini, manager, International Space Station (ISS) Program, speaks during the State Commission meeting to approve the Soyuz launch of Expedition 36 Soyuz Commander Fyodor Yurchikhin of the Russian Federal Space Agency (Roscosmos), Flight Engineers; Karen Nyberg of NASA, and Luca Parmitano at the Cosmonaut Hotel, Monday, May 27, 2013, in Kazakhstan. Photo credit: (NASA/Bill Ingalls)

Expedition 36/37 Soyuz Commander Fyodor Yurchikhin of the Russian Federal Space Agency (Roscosmos) talks during the State Commission meeting at the Cosmonaut Hotel, Monday, May 27, 2013, in Kazakhstan. Yurichikin and his fellow crew members, Flight Engineers; Karen Nyberg of NASA, and Luca Parmitano of the European Space Agency, were in quarantine and kept behind glass during the meeting in preparation for their launch on a Soyuz rocket to the International Space Station (ISS) on Wednesday May 29, Kazakh time. Photo credit: (NASA/Bill Ingalls)

Members of the State Commission meet to approve the Soyuz rocket launch of Expedition 39 Soyuz Commander Alexander Skvortsov of the Russian Federal Space Agency, Flight Engineer Steve Swanson of NASA, and Flight Engineer Oleg Artemyev of Roscosmos on a six month mission aboard the International Space Station., Wednesday, Nov. 6, 2013 at the Cosmonaut Hotel in Baikonur, Kazakhstan. Photo Credit: (NASA/Joel Kowsky)

Oleg Ostapenko, General Director of the Russian Federal Space Agency (Roscosmos), makes remarks during the State Commission meeting to approve the Soyuz launch of Expedition 41 to the International Space Station, Wednesday, Sept. 24, 2014, at the Cosmonaut Hotel in Baikonur, Kazakhstan. Launch of the Soyuz rocket is scheduled for Sept. 26 and will carry Expedition 41 Soyuz Commander Alexander Samokutyaev of the Russian Federal Space Agency (Roscosmos), Flight Engineer Barry Wilmore of NASA, and Flight Engineer Elena Serova of Roscosmos into orbit to begin their five and a half month mission on the International Space Station. Photo Credit: (NASA/Aubrey Gemignani)

Expedition 36/37 Soyuz Commander Fyodor Yurchikhin of the Russian Federal Space Agency (Roscosmos) holds up posters of his crew during the State Commission meeting at the Cosmonaut Hotel as Expedition 36 Flight Engineer Karen Nyberg of NASA looks on, Monday, May 27, 2013, in Kazakhstan. Yurichikin and his fellow crew members, Flight Engineers; Karen Nyberg of NASA, and Luca Parmitano of the European Space Agency, were in quarantine and kept behind glass during the meeting in preparation for their launch on a Soyuz rocket to the International Space Station (ISS) on Wednesday May 29, Kazakh time. Photo credit: (NASA/Bill Ingalls)

Head of Russian Federal Space Agency (Roscosmos) Igor Komarov is seen during the State Commission meeting to approve the Soyuz launch of Expedition 43 to the International Space Station, Thursday, March 26, 2015, at the Cosmonaut Hotel in Baikonur, Kazakhstan. NASA Astronaut Scott Kelly, and Russian Cosmonauts Mikhail Kornienko, and Gennady Padalka of the Russian Federal Space Agency (Roscosmos) launched to the International Space Station in the Soyuz TMA-16M spacecraft from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan March 28, Kazakh time (March 27 Eastern time.) As the one-year crew, Kelly and Kornienko will return to Earth on Soyuz TMA-18M in March 2016. Photo Credit (NASA/Bill Ingalls)

Expedition 42 backup crew members, Flight Engineer Kjell Lindgren of NASA (left), Soyuz Commander Oleg Kononenko of the Russian Federal Space Agency (Roscosmos) (center), and Flight Engineeer Kimiya Yui of the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) (right) are seen at the State Commission meeting to approve the Soyuz launch of Expedition 42 to the International Space Station in Baikonur, Kazakhstan on Saturday, Nov. 22, 2014. The mission is set to launch Nov. 24 from the Baikonur Cosmodrome. Photo Credit: (NASA/Aubrey Gemignani)

Jean-Jacques Dordain, ESA Director-General, speaks during the State Commission meeting to approve the Soyuz launch of Expedition 36 Soyuz Commander Fyodor Yurchikhin of the Russian Federal Space Agency (Roscosmos), Flight Engineers; Karen Nyberg of NASA, and Luca Parmitano at the Cosmonaut Hotel, Monday, May 27, 2013, in Kazakhstan. Photo credit: (NASA/Bill Ingalls)

NASA Administrator Charles Bolden is seen during the State Commission meeting to approve the Soyuz launch of Expedition 43 to the International Space Station, Thursday, March 26, 2015, at the Cosmonaut Hotel in Baikonur, Kazakhstan. NASA Astronaut Scott Kelly, and Russian Cosmonauts Mikhail Kornienko, and Gennady Padalka of the Russian Federal Space Agency (Roscosmos) launched to the International Space Station in the Soyuz TMA-16M spacecraft from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan March 28, Kazakh time (March 27 Eastern time.) As the one-year crew, Kelly and Kornienko will return to Earth on Soyuz TMA-18M in March 2016. Photo Credit (NASA/Bill Ingalls)

Expedition 43 NASA Astronaut Scott Kelly, left, Russian cosmonauts Gennady Padalka, center, and Mikhail Kornienko of the Russian Federal Space Agency (Roscosmos), are sen in quarentine behind glass during the State Commission meeting to approve the Soyuz launch to the International Space Station, Thursday, March 26, 2015, at the Cosmonaut Hotel in Baikonur, Kazakhstan. Kelly, Kornienko, and Padalka launched to the International Space Station in the Soyuz TMA-16M spacecraft from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan March 28, Kazakh time (March 27 Eastern time.) As the one-year crew, Kelly and Kornienko will return to Earth on Soyuz TMA-18M in March 2016. Photo Credit (NASA/Bill Ingalls)

Oleg Ostapenko, General Director of the Russian Federal Space Agency (Roscosmos), makes remarks during the State Commission meeting to approve the Soyuz launch of Expedition 42 to the International Space Station, Saturday, Nov. 22, 2014, at the Cosmonaut Hotel in Baikonur, Kazakhstan. Launch of the Soyuz rocket is scheduled for Nov. 24 and will carry Expedition 42 Soyuz Commander Anton Shkaplerov of the Russian Federal Space Agency (Roscosmos), Flight Engineer Terry Virts of NASA , and Flight Engineer Samantha Cristoforetti of the European Space Agency into orbit to begin their five and a half month mission on the International Space Station. Photo Credit: (NASA/Aubrey Gemignani)

Expedition 36/37 Soyuz Commander Fyodor Yurchikhin of the Russian Federal Space Agency (Roscosmos), center, Flight Engineers; Karen Nyberg of NASA, left, and Luca Parmitano of the European Space Agency, listen during the State Commission meeting at the Cosmonaut Hotel, Monday, May 27, 2013, in Kazakhstan. The crew is in quarantine and and kept behind glass during the meeting in preparation for their launch on a Soyuz rocket to the International Space Station (ISS) on Wednesday May 29, Kazakh time. Yurchikhin, Nyberg, and, Parmitano, will remain aboard the station until mid-November. Photo credit: (NASA/Bill Ingalls)

Expedition 41 prime crew members, from left to right, Flight Engineer Barry Wilmore of NASA, Soyuz Commander Alexander Samokutyaev of the Russian Federal Space Agency (Roscosmos), and Flight Engineer Elena Serova of Roscosmos are seen here with the backup crew members, Flight Engineer Scott Kelly of NASA, Soyuz Commander Gennadi Padalka of Roscosmos, and Flight Engineer Mikhail Kornienko of Roscosmos at the State Commission meeting to approve the Soyuz launch of Expedition 41 to the International Space Station in Baikonur, Kazakhstan on Wedneday, Sept. 24, 2014. The mission to the is set to launch Sept. 26 from the Baikonur Cosmodrome. Photo Credit: (NASA/Aubrey Gemignani)

Expedition 36/37 Flight Engineer Luca Parmitano of the European Space Agency gets the attention of a colleague after the State Commission meeting at the Cosmonaut Hotel, Monday, May 27, 2013, in Kazakhstan. Parmitano and his fellow crew members, Soyuz Commander Fyodor Yurchikhin of the Russian Federal Space Agency (Roscosmos), and Flight Engineer Karen Nyberg of NASA, were in quarantine and kept behind glass during the meeting in preparation for their launch on a Soyuz rocket to the International Space Station (ISS) on Wednesday May 29, Kazakh time. Photo credit: (NASA/Bill Ingalls)

Expedition 36/37 Flight Engineer Luca Parmitano of the European Space Agency stands during the State Commission meeting at the Cosmonaut Hotel, Monday, May 27, 2013, in Kazakhstan. Parmitano and his fellow crew members, Soyuz Commander Fyodor Yurchikhin of the Russian Federal Space Agency (Roscosmos), and Flight Engineer Karen Nyberg of NASA, were in quarantine and kept behind glass during the meeting in preparation for their launch on a Soyuz rocket to the International Space Station (ISS) on Wednesday May 29, Kazakh time. Photo credit: (NASA/Bill Ingalls)

Expedition 43 prime and backup crews are seen in quarantine behind glass, from left, Expedition 43 prime crew members; NASA Astronaut Scott Kelly, Russian cosmonauts Gennady Padalka, and Mikhail Kornienko of Roscosmos, Expedition 43 backup crew members; NASA Astronaut Jeff Williams, Russian cosmonauts Alexei Ovchinin, and Sergei Volkov of Roscosmos during the State Commission meeting to approve the Soyuz launch to the International Space Station, Thursday, March 26, 2015, at the Cosmonaut Hotel in Baikonur, Kazakhstan. Kelly, Kornienko, and Padalka launched to the International Space Station in the Soyuz TMA-16M spacecraft from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan March 28, Kazakh time (March 27 Eastern time.) As the one-year crew, Kelly and Kornienko will return to Earth on Soyuz TMA-18M in March 2016. Photo Credit (NASA/Bill Ingalls)

Expedition 43 prime and backup crews are seen in quarantine behind glass, from left, Expedition 43 prime crew members; NASA Astronaut Scott Kelly, Russian cosmonauts Gennady Padalka, and Mikhail Kornienko of Roscosmos, Expedition 43 backup crew members; NASA Astronaut Jeff Williams, Russian cosmonauts Alexei Ovchinin, and Sergei Volkov of Roscosmos during the State Commission meeting to approve the Soyuz launch to the International Space Station, Thursday, March 26, 2015, at the Cosmonaut Hotel in Baikonur, Kazakhstan. Kelly, Kornienko, and Padalka launched to the International Space Station in the Soyuz TMA-16M spacecraft from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan March 28, Kazakh time (March 27 Eastern time.) As the one-year crew, Kelly and Kornienko will return to Earth on Soyuz TMA-18M in March 2016. Photo Credit (NASA/Bill Ingalls)

Anatoly Perminov, Head of the Russian Federal Space Agency, speaks at the State Commission meeting held at the Cosmonaut Hotel in Baikonur, Kazakhstan on Tuesday, Dec. 14, 2010. Photo Credit: (NASA/Carla Cioffi)

Expedition 23 prime and backup crew members, from left, NASA's Tracy Caldwell Dyson, Russian Aleksander Skvortsov, Russian Mikhail Kornienko, NASA's Scott Kelly, Russian Alexander Samokutyayev, and Russian Andrei Borisenko are seen during the State Commission meeting to approve the Soyuz launch of Caldwell Dyson, Skvortsov and Kornienko, Thursday, April 1, 2010 in Baikonur, Kazakhstan. The crew is kept in a separate room with a glass window in order to help maintain their health. Photo Credit: (NASA/Bill Ingalls)

Expedition 37 Russian Flight Engineer Sergey Ryazanskiy of the Russian Federal Space Agency (Roscosmos) talks during the State Commission meeting at the Cosmonaut Hotel, Tuesday, Sept. 24, 2013, in Kazakhstan. Launch of the Soyuz rocket is scheduled for September 26 and will send Ryazanskiy, Soyuz Commander Oleg Kotov and NASA Flight Engineer Michael Hopkins on a five and a half-month mission aboard the International Space Station. Photo Credit: (NASA/Carla Cioffi)

Expedition 29 backup crew members NASA Flight Engineer Joseph Acaba, far left, Russian Soyuz Commander Gennady Padalka, center, and Russian Flight Engineer Sergei Revin are seen the State Commission meeting to approve the Soyuz launch of Expedition 29 to the International Space Station in Baikonur, Kazakhstan on Saturday, Nov. 12, 2011. Photo Credit: (NASA/Carla Cioffi)

Expedition 23 crew members, from left, NASA's Tracy Caldwell Dyson, Russian Alexander Skvortsov and Russian Mikhail Kornienko are seen during the State Commission meeting to approve the Soyuz launch of Skvortsov, Caldwell Dyson and Mikhail Kornienko on Thursday, April 1, 2010 in Baikonur, Kazakhstan. The crew is kept in a separate room with a glass window in order to help maintain their health. Photo Credit: (NASA/Bill Ingalls)

General Director of the Russian Federal Space Agency, Roscosmos, Oleg Ostapenko, as seen during the State Commission meeting to approve the Soyuz rocket launch of Expedition 39 Soyuz Commander Alexander Skvortsov of the Russian Federal Space Agency, Flight Engineer Steve Swanson of NASA, and Flight Engineer Oleg Artemyev of Roscosmos on a six month mission aboard the International Space Station, Monday, March 24, 2014 at the Cosmonaut Hotel in Baikonur, Kazakhstan. Photo Credit: (NASA/Bill Ingalls)

Expedition 29 crew members NASA Flight Engineer Daniel Burbank, far left, Russian Soyuz Commander Anton Shkaplerov, center, and Russian Flight Engineer Anatoly Ivanishin are seen the State Commission meeting to approve the Soyuz launch of Expedition 29 to the International Space Station in Baikonur, Kazakhstan on Saturday, Nov. 12, 2011. Photo Credit: (NASA/Carla Cioffi)

Expedition 37 Soyuz Commander Oleg Kotov of the Russian Federal Space Agency (Roscosmos) talks during the State Commission meeting at the Cosmonaut Hotel, Tuesday, Sept. 24, 2013, in Kazakhstan. Launch of the Soyuz rocket is scheduled for September 26 and will send Kotov, NASA Flight Engineer Michael Hopkins and Russian Flight Engineer Sergei Ryazansky on a five and a half-month mission aboard the International Space Station. Photo Credit: (NASA/Carla Cioffi)

JSC2010-E-041315 (19 March 2010) ----At the Kremlin Wall in Red Square in Moscow March 19, 2010, Russian cosmonaut Mikhail Kornienko, Expedition 23 flight engineer, lays flowers in a traditional ceremony prior to his departure for the launch site at the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan for final preparations for launch on the Soyuz TMA-18 spacecraft to the International Space Station April 2. Russian cosmonaut Alexander Skvortsov, Soyuz commander, NASA astronaut Tracy Caldwell Dyson, Expedition 23 flight engineer, and Kornienko were certified for launch earlier in the day by the Russian State Commission. Credit: NASA/Stephanie Stoll

Anatoly Perminov, head of the Russian Federal Space Agency (ROSCOSMOS), second from left, speaks during the State Commission meeting to approve the Soyuz launch of Expedition 23 Soyuz Commander Alexander Skvortsov, Flight Engineer Tracy Caldwell Dyson and Flight Engineer Mikhail Kornienko on Thursday, April 1, 2010, in Baikonur, Kazakhstan. Photo Credit: (NASA/Carla Cioffi)

Jean-Jacques Dordain, ESA Director-General, is seen giving a television interview shortly after the State Commission meeting to approve the Soyuz launch of Expedition 36 Soyuz Commander Fyodor Yurchikhin of the Russian Federal Space Agency (Roscosmos), Flight Engineers; Karen Nyberg of NASA, and Luca Parmitano of the European Space Agency at the Cosmonaut Hotel, Monday, May 27, 2013, in Kazakhstan. Photo credit: (NASA/Bill Ingalls)

Head of the Russian Federal Space Agency, Anatoly Perminov shows a logo that will be used for the Expedition 22 mission during the State Commission meeting to approve the Soyuz launch of Expedition 21 Flight Engineer Jeffrey N. Williams, Expedition 21 Flight Engineer Maxim Suraev, and Spaceflight Participant Guy Laliberté on Tuesday, Sept. 29, 2009 in Baikonur, Kazakhstan. The logo incorporates designs from a children's competition. Photo Credit: (NASA/Bill Ingalls)

Vladimir Popovkin, Head of the Russian Federal Space Agency (ROSCOSMOS) speaks during the State Commission meeting to approve the Soyuz launch of Expedition 28 to the International Space Station, Monday, June 6, 2011, at the Cosmonaut Hotel in Baikonur, Kazakhstan. The mission is set to launch on Tuesday, June 8, from the Baikonur Cosmodrome. Photo Credit: (NASA/Carla Cioffi)

Victor Grin, a member of the Russian State Commission, left, greets Expedition 8 Commander Michael Foale, far right, Expedition 8 Soyuz Commander and Flight Engineer Alexander Kaleri and European Space Agency astronaut Pedro Duque of Spain, right, Sunday, Oct. 12, 2003, upon their arrival in Baikonur, Kazakhstan for the Oct. 18 launch of a Soyuz rocket to the International Space Station. Photo Credit (NASA/Bill Ingalls)

Vladimir Popovkin, Head of the Russian Federal Space Agency (ROSCOSMOS) speaks during the State Commission meeting to approve the Soyuz launch of Expedition 29 to the International Space Station, Saturday, Nov. 12, 2011, at the Cosmonaut Hotel in Baikonur, Kazakhstan. The mission is set to launch November 14 from the Baikonur Cosmodrome. Photo Credit: (NASA/Carla Cioffi)

Valery Grin, Deputy Head of State Commission, talks on the phone to the six crew members onboard 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)

jsc2020e016783 - At the Gagarin Cosmonaut Training Center in Star City, Russia, Expedition 63 crewmembers Chris Cassidy of NASA (left) and Anatoly Ivanishin (center) and Ivan Vagner of Roscosmos (right) listen as the Russian State Commission approves them for launch March 23 on the eve of their departure for their launch site at the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan. Cassidy, Ivanishin and Vagner will launch April 9 on the Soyuz MS-16 spacecraft from Baikonur for a six-and-a-half month mission on the International Space Station...Andrey Shelepin/Gagarin Cosmonaut Training Center.

Head of the Russian Federal Space Agency, Anatoly Perminov speaks during the State Commission meeting to approve the Soyuz launch of Expedition 19 Commander Gennady I. Padalka, Flight Engineer Michael R. Barratt and Spaceflight Participant Charles Simonyi on Wednesday, March 25, 2009 in Baikonur, Kazakhstan. Photo Credit: (NASA/Bill Ingalls)

NASA Space Station Program Office Manager Michael T. Suffredini, talks during the State Commission meeting to approve the Soyuz rocket launch of Expedition 39 Soyuz Commander Alexander Skvortsov of the Russian Federal Space Agency, Flight Engineer Steve Swanson of NASA, and Flight Engineer Oleg Artemyev of Roscosmos on a six month mission aboard the International Space Station, Monday, March 24, 2014 at the Cosmonaut Hotel in Baikonur, Kazakhstan. Photo Credit: (NASA/Joel Kowsky)

Expedition 37 NASA Flight Engineer Michael Hopkins talks during the State Commission meeting at the Cosmonaut Hotel, Tuesday, Sept. 24, 2013, in Kazakhstan. Launch of the Soyuz rocket is scheduled for September 26 and will send Hopkins, Soyuz Commander Oleg Kotov and Russian Flight Engineer Sergei Ryazansky on a five and a half-month mission aboard the International Space Station. Photo Credit: (NASA/Carla Cioffi)

Anatoly Perminov, head of the Russian Federal Space Agency (ROSCOSMOS), speaks during the State Commission meeting to approve the Soyuz launch of Expedition 23 Soyuz Commander Alexander Skvortsov, Flight Engineer Tracy Caldwell Dyson and Flight Engineer Mikhail Kornienko on Thursday, April 1, 2010, in Baikonur, Kazakhstan. Photo Credit: (NASA/Carla Cioffi)

Expedition 41 prime crew members, Flight Engineer Barry Wilmore of NASA, Soyuz Commander Alexander Samokutyaev of the Russian Federal Space Agency (Roscosmos), and Flight Engineer Elena Serova of Roscosmos, are seen at the State Commission meeting to approve the Soyuz launch of Expedition 41 to the International Space Station in Baikonur, Kazakhstan on Wedneday, Sept. 24, 2014. The mission is set to launch Sept. 26 from the Baikonur Cosmodrome. Photo Credit: (NASA/Aubrey Gemignani)

The crew of Expedition 24 NASA Flight Engineer Doug Wheelock, left, Russian Soyuz Commander Fyodor Yurchikhin and NASA Flight Engineer Shannon Walker are seen during the State Commission meeting to approve the Soyuz launch of Expedition 24 Flight Engineers Doug Wheelock, Shannon Walker and Soyuz Commander Fyodor Yurchikhin on Monday, June 14, 2010 in Baikonur, Kazakhstan. Photo Credit: (NASA/Carla Cioffi)

Expedition 65 Russian cosmonaut Pyotr Dubrov is seen during the State Commission meeting to approve the Soyuz launch of Expedition 65 to the International Space Station, Thursday, April 8, 2021 at the Cosmonaut Hotel in Baikonur, Kazakhstan. Expedition 65 NASA astronaut Mark Vande Hei, Roscosmos cosmonauts Pyotr Dubrov and Oleg Novitskiy, are scheduled to launch to the International Space Station aboard the Soyuz MS-18 spacecraft on April 9. Photo Credit: (NASA/Bill Ingalls)

Backup crewmembers Andre Kuipers of the Netherlands of the European Space Agency, center, Bill McArthur of NASA, left, and Valery Tokarev of Russia listen to Russian space officials clear their Expedition 8 and European Space Agency prime crewmembers for launch during a State Commission meeting, Friday, Oct. 17, 2003, at the Cosmonaut Hotel in Baikonur, Kazakhstan. Prime crewmembers Mike Foale, Alexander Kaleri and Pedro Duque launched, Saturday, Oct. 18 to the International Space Station in a Soyuz TMA-3 vehicle.Photo Credit (NASA/Bill Ingalls)

Joel Montalbano, NASA Deputy International Space Station (ISS) Program Manager, during the State Commission meeting to approve the Soyuz launch of Expedition 37 Soyuz Commander Oleg Kotov of the Russian Federal Space Agency (Roscosmos), Flight Engineers Michael Hopkins of NASA and Sergey Ryazanskiy of Russia at the Cosmonaut Hotel, Tuesday, Sept. 24, 2013, in Kazakhstan. Photo Credit: (NASA/Carla Cioffi)

Expedition 28 Russian backup Flight Engineer Oleg Kononenko is seen seated during the State Commission meeting to approve the Soyuz launch of Expedition 28 to the International Space Station, Monday, June 6, 2011, at the Cosmonaut Hotel in Baikonur, Kazakhstan. The mission is set to launch on Tuesday, June 8, from the Baikonur Cosmodrome. Photo Credit: (NASA/Carla Cioffi)

General Director of the Russian Federal Space Agency, Roscosmos, Oleg Ostapenko, talks during the State Commission meeting to approve the Soyuz rocket launch of Expedition 38 Soyuz Commander Mikhail Tyurin of Roscosmos, Flight Engineer Koichi Wakata of the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency, and, Flight Engineer Rick Mastracchio of NASA for a six month mission aboard the International Space Station, Wednesday, Nov. 6, 2013 at the Cosmonaut Hotel in Baikonur, Kazakhstan. Photo Credit: (NASA/Bill Ingalls)

Expedition 65 Russian cosmonaut Oleg Novitskiy is seen during the State Commission meeting to approve the Soyuz launch of Expedition 65 to the International Space Station, Thursday, April 8, 2021 at the Cosmonaut Hotel in Baikonur, Kazakhstan. Expedition 65 NASA astronaut Mark Vande Hei, Roscosmos cosmonauts Pyotr Dubrov and Oleg Novitskiy, are scheduled to launch to the International Space Station aboard the Soyuz MS-18 spacecraft on April 9. Photo Credit: (NASA/Bill Ingalls)

Expedition 29 Russian Flight Engineer Anatoly Ivanishin speaks during the State Commission meeting to approve the Soyuz launch of Expedition 29 to the International Space Station, Saturday, Nov. 12, 2011 at the Cosmonaut Hotel in Baikonur, Kazakhstan. The mission is set to launch November 14 from the Baikonur Cosmodrome. Photo Credit: (NASA/Carla Cioffi)

Head of the Russian Federal Space Agency, Anatoly Perminov holds a poster given to him by the crew of Expedition 24 during the State Commission meeting to approve the Soyuz launch of Expedition 24 Flight Engineers Doug Wheelock, Shannon Walker and Soyuz Commander Fyodor Yurchikhin on Monday, June 14, 2010 in Baikonur, Kazakhstan. Photo Credit: (NASA/Carla Cioffi)

October 12, 2003, Baikonur, Kazakhstan. Victor Grin, A member of the Russian State Commission (left) greets (left to right) Expedition 8 Commander Michael Foale, Expedition 8 Soyuz Commander and Flight Engineer Alexander Kaleri and European Space Agency Astronaut Pedro Duque of Spain. Expedition 8 is scheduled to launch from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan on October 18th onboard a Soyuz rocket to the International Space Station. Photo Credit: "NASA/Bill Ingalls"

Baikonur, Kazakhstan - Victor Grin (left), a member of the Russian State Commission, greets (left to right) Expedition 8 Commander Michael Foale, Expedition 8 Soyuz Commander and Flight Engineer Alexander Kaleri and European Space Agency Astronaut Pedro Duque of Spain. Expedition 8 is scheduled to launch from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan on Oct.18 on board a Soyuz rocket to the International Space Station. Photo Credit: "NASA/Bill Ingalls"

JSC2010-E-041314 (19 March 2010) --- At the Kremlin Wall in Red Square in Moscow March 19, 2010, NASA astronaut Tracy Caldwell Dyson, Expedition 23 flight engineer, lays flowers in a traditional ceremony prior to her departure for the launch site at the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan for final preparations for her launch on the Soyuz TMA-18 spacecraft to the International Space Station April 2. Caldwell Dyson, Russian cosmonauts Alexander Skvortsov, Soyuz commander, and Mikhail Kornienko, Expedition 23 flight engineer, were certified for launch earlier in the day by the Russian State Commission. Photo credit: NASA/Stephanie Stoll

JSC2010-E-041312 (19 March 2010) --- Russian cosmonaut Alexander Skvortsov, Soyuz commander, along with cosmonaut Mikhail Kornienko and NASA astronaut Tracy Caldwell Dyson, both Expedition 23 flight engineers, receive their flight certification from the Russian State Commission at the Gagarin Cosmonaut Training Center in Star City, Russia March 19, 2010. They will depart for the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan for final pre-launch preparations leading to their launch April 2 in the Soyuz TMA-18 spacecraft bound for the International Space Station. Credit: NASA/Stephanie Stoll

Oleg Ostapenko, General Director of the Russian Federal Space Agency, Roscosmos, makes remarks during the State Commission meeting held to approve the Soyuz launch of the crew for a five and a half month mission aboard the International Space Station, Tuesday, May 27, 2014 at the Cosmonaut Hotel in Baikonur, Kazakhstan. Expedition 40 Soyuz Commander Maxim Suraev of the Russian Federal Space Agency, Roscosmos, Flight Engineer Alexander Gerst of the European Space Agency, ESA, and Flight Engineer Reid Wiseman of NASA will launch about their Soyuz TMA-13M spacecraft in the early hours of May 29. Photo Credit: (NASA/Joel Kowsky)

jsc2017e038908 (03/31/2017) --- At the Gagarin Cosmonaut Training Center in Star City, Russia, Expedition 51 crewmembers Fyodor Yurchikhin of the Russian Federal Space Agency (Roscosmos, left) and Jack Fischer of NASA (right) report to Russian state commission officials March 31 at the start of the second of two days of final qualification exams. Yurchikhin and Fischer will launch April 20 on the Soyuz MS-04 spacecraft from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan for a four and a half month mission on the International Space Station. Expedition 51 Photo: Rob Navias/NASA.

The State Commission gives the approval for launch of the Soyuz TMA-13 spacecraft carrying Expedition 18 Commander Michael Fincke, Flight Engineer Yuri V. Lonchakov and American spaceflight participant Richard Garriott to the International Space Station, Saturday, Oct. 11, 2008, in Baikonur, Kazakhstan. The three crew members are scheduled to launch Oct. 12 for a docking with the International Space Station on Oct. 14. Fincke and Lonchakov will spend six months on the station, while Garriott will return to Earth Oct. 24 with two of the Expedition 17 crew members currently on the International Space Station. Photo Credit: (NASA/Bill Ingalls)

Expedition 10 Commander Leroy Chiao, right, Expedition 10 Soyuz Commander Salizhan Sharipov and Russian Space Forces cosmonaut Yuri Shargin, left, stand before the State Commission one day prior to their scheduled launch of the Soyuz TMA-5 spacecraft to the International Space Station, Wednesday, Oct. 13, 2004, in Baikonur, Kazakhstan. The crew docked to the Station on October 16, and Chiao and Sharipov will replace the current Station crewmembers, Gennady Padalka and Mike Fincke, who will return to Earth October 24 with Shargin. Photo Credit: (NASA/Bill Ingalls)

Expedition 40 Soyuz Commander Maxim Suraev, speaks from behind glass, while in quarantine, during the State Commission meeting held to approve the Soyuz launch of the crew for a five and a half month mission aboard the International Space Station, Tuesday, May 27, 2014 at the Cosmonaut Hotel in Baikonur, Kazakhstan. Expedition 40 Soyuz Commander Maxim Suraev of the Russian Federal Space Agency, Roscosmos, Flight Engineer Alexander Gerst of the European Space Agency, ESA, and Flight Engineer Reid Wiseman of NASA will launch aboard their Soyuz TMA-13M spacecraft in the early hours of May 29. Photo Credit: (NASA/Joel Kowsky)

jsc2017e038541 (March 30, 2017) --- At the Gagarin Cosmonaut Training Center in Star City, Russia, Expedition 51 backup crewmembers Sergey Ryazanskiy of the Russian Federal Space Agency (Roscosmos, left) and Randy Bresnik of NASA (right) report to State Commission officials March 30 for the start of two days of final crew qualification exams. They are 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 in Kazakhstan for a four and a half month mission on the International Space Station. Credit: NASA/Rob Navias

Dan Hartman, NASA Deputy Space Station Program Manager speaks during the State Commission meeting held to approve the Soyuz launch of the crew for a five and a half month mission aboard the International Space Station, Tuesday, May 27, 2014 at the Cosmonaut Hotel in Baikonur, Kazakhstan. Expedition 40 Soyuz Commander Maxim Suraev of the Russian Federal Space Agency, Roscosmos, Flight Engineer Alexander Gerst of the European Space Agency, ESA, and Flight Engineer Reid Wiseman of NASA will launch about their Soyuz TMA-13M spacecraft in the early hours of May 29. Photo Credit: (NASA/Joel Kowsky)

jsc2020e016784 - At the Gagarin Cosmonaut Training Center in Star City, Russia, Expedition 63 crewmember Chris Cassidy of NASA (standing) acknowledges the Russian State Commission’s approval of him for launch March 23 as his crewmates look on. From left to right are backup crewmembers Steve Bowen of NASA and Sergey Ryzhikov of Roscosmos, and prime crewmembers Anatoly Ivanishin and Ivan Vagner of Roscosmos. Cassidy, Ivanishin and Vagner will launch April 9 on the Soyuz MS-16 spacecraft from Baikonur for a six-and-a-half month mission on the International Space Station...Andrey Shelepin/Gagarin Cosmonaut Training Center..

Expedition 27 Commander Dmitry Kondratyev, left, shakes hands with Deputy Chair of the State Commission Mr. Skorobogotov after Kondratyev arrived at the Chkalovsky airport outside Star City, Russia and several hours after he and Flight Engineers Paolo Nespoli and Cady Coleman landed in their Soyuz TMA-20 southeast of the town of Zhezkazgan, Kazakhstan, on Tuesday, May 24, 2011. NASA Astronaut Coleman, Russian Cosmonaut Kondratyev and Italian Astronaut Nespoli are returning from more than five months onboard the International Space Station where they served as members of the Expedition 26 and 27 crews. Photo Credit: (NASA/Bill Ingalls)

A Russian flight surgeon, right, along with the quarantined prime and backup crews listen to the State Commission give the final approval for the launch of the Soyuz TMA-13 spacecraft, Saturday, Oct. 11, 2008 in Baikonur, Kazakhstan. Expedition 18 Commander Michael Fincke, Flight Engineer Yuri V. Lonchakov and American spaceflight participant Richard Garriott are scheduled to launch Oct. 12 and dock with the International Space Station on Oct. 14. Fincke and Lonchakov will spend six months on the station, while Garriott will return to Earth Oct. 24 with two of the Expedition 17 crew members currently on the International Space Station. Photo Credit: (NASA/Bill Ingalls)

Expedition 65 backup crew members NASA astronaut Anne McClain, left, and Russian cosmonauts Anton Shkaplerov of Roscosmos, and Oleg Artemyev of Roscosmos, right, are seen during the State Commission meeting to approve the Soyuz launch of Expedition 65 to the International Space Station, Thursday, April 8, 2021 at the Cosmonaut Hotel in Baikonur, Kazakhstan. Expedition 65 NASA astronaut Mark Vande Hei, Roscosmos cosmonauts Pyotr Dubrov and Oleg Novitskiy, are scheduled to launch to the International Space Station aboard the Soyuz MS-18 spacecraft on April 9. Photo Credit: (NASA/Bill Ingalls)

An Orthodox Priest blesses members of the media at the Baikonur Cosmodrome launch pad on Saturday, Dec. 16, 2017. Expedition 54 Soyuz Commander Anton Shkaplerov of Roscosmos, flight engineer Scott Tingle of NASA, and flight engineer Norishige Kanai of the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) are scheduled to launch to the International Space Station aboard the Soyuz spacecraft from the Baikonur Cosmodrome on Dec. 17. Photo Credit: (NASA/Joel Kowsky)

Michael Suffredini, NASA International Space Station Program Manager, speaks during the State Commission meeting to approve the Soyuz launch of Expedition 42 to the International Space Station, Saturday, Nov. 22, 2014, at the Cosmonaut Hotel in Baikonur, Kazakhstan. The mission is set to launch Nov. 24 from the Baikonur Cosmodrome. Photo Credit: (NASA/Aubrey Gemignani)

U.S. Ambassador to Russia Jon Huntsman Jr. is seen during the State Commission meeting to approve the Soyuz launch of Expedition 56 to the International Space Station, Tuesday, June 5, 2018 at the Cosmonaut Hotel in Baikonur, Kazakhstan. Expedition 56 Soyuz Commander Sergey Prokopyev of Roscosmos, Serena Auñón-Chancellor of NASA, and Alexander Gerst of ESA (European Space Agency) are scheduled to launch to the International Space Station aboard the Soyuz MS-09 spacecraft on Wednesday, June 6. Photo Credit: (NASA/Joel Kowsky)

An Orthodox Priest blesses members of the media at the Baikonur Cosmodrome launch pad on Saturday, Dec. 16, 2017. Expedition 54 Soyuz Commander Anton Shkaplerov of Roscosmos, flight engineer Scott Tingle of NASA, and flight engineer Norishige Kanai of the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) are scheduled to launch to the International Space Station aboard the Soyuz spacecraft from the Baikonur Cosmodrome on Dec. 17. Photo Credit: (NASA/Joel Kowsky)

Manager of International Space Station Operations, Bernardo Patti, of the European Space Agency (ESA), speaks during the State Commission meeting to approve the Soyuz launch of Expedition 42 to the International Space Station, Saturday, Nov. 22, at the Cosmonaut Hotel in Baikonur, Kazakhstan. The mission is set to launch Nov. 24 from the Baikonur Cosmodrome. Photo Credit: (NASA/Aubrey Gemignani)

Expedition 42 backup crew member Flight Engineer Kjell Lindgren of NASA speaks during the State Commission meeting to approve the Soyuz launch of Expedition 42 to the International Space Station, Saturday, Nov. 22, 2014 at the Cosmonaut Hotel in Baikonur, Kazakhstan. The mission is set to launch Nov. 24 from the Baikonur Cosmodrome. Photo Credit: (NASA/Aubrey Gemignani)

Expedition 42 Flight Engineer, Terry Virts of NASA, speaks from behind glass, while in quarantine, during the State Commission meeting to approve the Soyuz launch of Expedition 42 to the International Space Station, Saturday, Nov. 22, 2014, at the Cosmonaut Hotel in Baikonur, Kazakhstan. The mission is set to launch Nov. 24 from the Baikonur Cosmodrome. Photo Credit: (NASA/Aubrey Gemignani

From left behind glass, Expedition 38 prime crew members, Flight Engineer Koichi Wakata of the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency, Soyuz Commander Mikhail Tyurin of Roscosmos, and, Flight Engineer Rick Mastracchio of NASA, are joined with Expedition 38 backup crew members, Alexander Gerst of the European Space Agency, Max Suraev of Roscosmos, and Reid Wiseman of NASA during the State Commission meeting held to approve the Soyuz launch of the crew for a six month mission aboard the International Space Station, Wednesday, Nov. 6, 2013 at the Cosmonaut Hotel in Baikonur, Kazakhstan. Photo Credit: (NASA/Bill Ingalls)