A mosaic sign welcoming visitors is seen outside the town of Baikonur, Kazakhstan, Sunday, Sept. 22, 2019 in Baikonur, Kazakhstan. Expedition 61 crewmembers Jessica Meir of NASA and Oleg Skripochka of Roscosmos, and spaceflight participant Hazzaa Ali Almansoori of the United Arab Emirates will launch September 25th on the Soyuz MS-15 spacecraft from the Baikonur Cosmodrome to the International Space Station. Photo Credit: (NASA/Bill Ingalls)

A mosaic sign welcoming visitors is seen outside the town of Baikonur, Kazakhstan, Monday, March 11, 2019 in Baikonur, Kazakhstan. Expedition 59 crewmembers Nick Hague and Christina Koch of NASA, along with Alexey Ovchinin of Roscosmos, will launch March 14, U.S. time, on the Soyuz MS-12 spacecraft from the Baikonur Cosmodrome for a six-and-a-half month mission on the International Space Station. Photo Credit: (NASA/Bill Ingalls)

A mosaic sign welcoming visitors is seen outside the town of Baikonur, Kazakhstan, Monday, Oct. 8, 2018. Expedition 57 Flight Engineer Nick Hague of NASA and Flight Engineer Alexey Ovchinin of Roscosmos are scheduled to launch October 11 on a Soyuz rocket and will spend the next six months living and working aboard the International Space Station. Photo Credit: (NASA/Bill Ingalls)

A mosaic sign welcoming visitors is seen outside the town of Baikonur, Kazakhstan, Monday, March 11, 2019 in Baikonur, Kazakhstan. Expedition 59 crewmembers Nick Hague and Christina Koch of NASA, along with Alexey Ovchinin of Roscosmos, will launch March 14, U.S. time, on the Soyuz MS-12 spacecraft from the Baikonur Cosmodrome for a six-and-a-half month mission on the International Space Station. Photo Credit: (NASA/Bill Ingalls)

KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, FLA. - Former astronaut Story Musgrave signs autographs for employees’ children after his presentation during a welcome ceremony in the IMAX Theatre, KSC Visitor Complex. Employees were invited to share their work experience with their children for Take Our Children to Work Day.

STS-135 pilot Doug Hurley signs a welcome home banner before a welcome home ceremony for the crew of the space shuttle Atlantis, the final mission of the NASA shuttle program, at Ellington Field in Houston on Friday, July 22, 2011. ( NASA Photo / Houston Chronicle, Smiley N. Pool )

JSC2001-E-04813 (21 February 2001) --- Astronaut Marsha S. Ivins, STS-98 mission specialist, signs some photos and mementoes for members of the crowd on hand at Ellington Field for a brief welcome hom eceremony for the five Atlantis crew members.

JSC2002-E-25983 (21 June 2002) --- NASA Administrator Sean O'Keefe (from left), astronauts Paul S. Lockhart, Philippe Perrin, Franklin R. Chang-Diaz and Kenneth D. Cockrell check out the welcome home sign of a young greeter during crew return ceremonies in Hangar 990 at Elligngton Field.

A mosaic sign welcomes visitors outside the town of Baikonur, Kazakhstan, Saturday, Sept. 7, 2024. NASA team members arrived in Baikonur in advance of the September 11 launch of Expedition 72 crew members: NASA astronaut Don Pettit, Roscosmos cosmonauts Alexey Ovchinin, and Ivan Vagner. Photo Credit: (NASA/Bill Ingalls)

A mosaic sign welcomes visitors outside the town of Baikonur, Kazakhstan, Saturday, Sept. 7, 2024. NASA team members arrived in Baikonur in advance of the September 11 launch of Expedition 72 crew members: NASA astronaut Don Pettit, Roscosmos cosmonauts Alexey Ovchinin, and Ivan Vagner. Photo Credit: (NASA/Bill Ingalls)

A mosaic sign welcomes visitors outside the town of Baikonur, Kazakhstan, Sunday, Nov. 23, 2025. NASA team members arrived in Baikonur in advance of the November 27 launch of Expedition 74 crewmembers: NASA astronaut Chris Williams, Roscosmos cosmonauts Sergey Kud-Sverchkov and Sergey Mikaev. Photo Credit: (NASA/Bill Ingalls)

A mosaic sign welcomes visitors outside the town of Baikonur, Kazakhstan, Sunday, Nov. 23, 2025. NASA team members arrived in Baikonur in advance of the November 27 launch of Expedition 74 crewmembers: NASA astronaut Chris Williams, Roscosmos cosmonauts Sergey Kud-Sverchkov and Sergey Mikaev. Photo Credit: (NASA/Bill Ingalls)

A mosaic sign welcomes visitors outside the town of Baikonur, Kazakhstan, Monday, April 5, 2021. NASA team members arrived in Baikonur, Kazakhstan in advance of the April 9, MS-18 spacecraft launch with Expedition 65 crewmembers Mark Vande Hei of NASA, Pyotr Dubrov and Oleg Novitskiy of Roscosmos. Photo Credit: (NASA/Bill Ingalls)

CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. -- Inside the Space Station Processing Facility, or SSPF, at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida, Amy Houts-Gilfriche, a partnership development manager in the Center Planning and Development Directorate, greets new partner Donald Platt with Micro Aerospace Solutions of Melbourne, Fla., during an official welcome ceremony, April 1. NASA signed an agreement with Micro Aerospace Solutions on March 22 for use of an offline hardware processing laboratory and office space at the processing facility. Photo credit: NASA_Kim Shiflett

A sign welcomes Kennedy Space Center employees to the “KSC and Proud to Be” centerwide diversity event held at the Florida spaceport’s Operations Support Building II (OSB II) on Aug. 20, 2019. The event featured a presentation by Robin Hauser, a director and producer of award-winning documentaries. Hauser, who has spoken at the White House and at conferences worldwide, addressed bias in artificial intelligence. A new employee video focusing on the importance of employee resource groups at the center made its debut showing at the event.

A welcome sign is seen along the roads in Madras, Oregon, where thousands of visitors are expected for the total solar eclipse, Saturday, August 19, 2017. The eclipse will be sweeping across a narrow portion of the contiguous United States from Lincoln Beach, Oregon to Charleston, South Carolina on August 21. A partial solar eclipse will be visible across the entire North American continent along with parts of South America, Africa, and Europe. Photo Credit: (NASA/Aubrey Gemignani)

A sign welcoming NASA astronaut Victor Glover is seen, Thursday, April 28, 2022, at the National Museum of African American History and Culture in Washington. Glover most recently served as pilot and second-in-command on the Crew-1 SpaceX Crew Dragon, named Resilience, which landed after a long duration mission aboard the International Space Station, May 2, 2021. Photo Credit: (NASA/Bill Ingalls)

A mosaic sign welcomes visitors outside the town of Baikonur, Kazakhstan, Monday, Sept. 11, 2023. NASA team members arrived in Baikonur, Kazakhstan in advance of the Sept. 15, MS-24 spacecraft launch with Expedition 70 NASA astronaut Loral O'Hara, and Roscosmos cosmonauts Oleg Kononenko, and Nikolai Chub. Photo Credit: (NASA/Bill Ingalls)

CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. -- Inside the Space Station Processing Facility, or SSPF, at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida, International Space Station Ground Processing and Research Director Josie Burnett, at left, greets new partner Donald Platt with Micro Aerospace Solutions of Melbourne, Fla., during an official welcome ceremony, April 1. NASA signed an agreement with Micro Aerospace Solutions on March 22 for use of an offline hardware processing laboratory and office space at the processing facility. Photo credit: NASA_Kim Shiflett

A mosaic sign welcomes visitors outside the town of Baikonur, Kazakhstan, Monday, April 5, 2021. NASA team members arrived in Baikonur, Kazakhstan in advance of the April 9, MS-18 spacecraft launch with Expedition 65 crewmembers Mark Vande Hei of NASA, Pyotr Dubrov and Oleg Novitskiy of Roscosmos. Photo Credit: (NASA/Bill Ingalls)

A mosaic sign welcomes visitors outside the town of Baikonur, Kazakhstan, Monday, April 5, 2021. NASA team members arrived in Baikonur, Kazakhstan in advance of the April 9, MS-18 spacecraft launch with Expedition 65 crewmembers Mark Vande Hei of NASA, Pyotr Dubrov and Oleg Novitskiy of Roscosmos. Photo Credit: (NASA/Bill Ingalls)

CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. -- Inside the Space Station Processing Facility, or SSPF, at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida, Cliff Hausmann, a technical integration manager in the Center Planning and Development Directorate, greets new partner Donald Platt with Micro Aerospace Solutions of Melbourne, Fla., during an official welcome ceremony, April 1. NASA signed an agreement with Micro Aerospace Solutions on March 22 for use of an offline hardware processing laboratory and office space at the processing facility. Photo credit: NASA_Kim Shiflett

A mosaic sign welcomes visitors outside the town of Baikonur, Kazakhstan, Sunday, March 17, 2024. NASA team members arrived in Baikonur in advance of the March 21 launch of Expedition 71 crewmembers NASA astronaut Tracy Dyson, Roscosmos cosmonaut Oleg Novitskiy, and Belarus spaceflight participant Marina Vasilevskaya. Photo Credit: (NASA/Bill Ingalls)

A mosaic sign welcomes visitors outside the town of Baikonur, Kazakhstan, Saturday, Sept. 17, 2022. NASA team members arrived in Baikonur, Kazakhstan in advance of the Sept. 21, MS-22 spacecraft launch with Expedition 68 crewmembers Frank Rubio of NASA, and Sergey Prokopyev and Dmitri Petelin of Roscosmos. Photo Credit: (NASA/Bill Ingalls)

KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, FLA. -- Astronaut Sam Durrance signs the costume helmet of one of the students who welcomed NASA representatives to Oscar Patterson Elementary Magnet School in Panama City, Fla. He and Center Director Jim Kennedy, along with others, visited the school to share America’s new vision for space exploration with the next generation of explorers. Kennedy is talking with students about our destiny as explorers, NASA’s stepping stone approach to exploring Earth, the Moon, Mars and beyond, how space impacts our lives, and how people and machines rely on each other in space.

KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, FLA. -- Center Director Jim Kennedy signs the costume helmet of one of the students who welcomed NASA representatives to Oscar Patterson Elementary Magnet School in Panama City, Fla. He other NASA officials visited the school to share America’s new vision for space exploration with the next generation of explorers. Kennedy is talking with students at NASA Explorer Schools in Florida and Georgia about our destiny as explorers, NASA’s stepping stone approach to exploring Earth, the Moon, Mars and beyond, how space impacts our lives, and how people and machines rely on each other in space.

2381: At the Gagarin Cosmonaut Training Center in Star City, Russia, Expedition 41/42 Flight Engineer Barry Wilmore of NASA signs a welcome book at the Gagarin Museum Sept. 5 in a traditional ceremony. Wilmore, Elena Serova of the Russian Federal Space Agency (Roscosmos) and Soyuz Commander Alexander Samokutyaev of Roscosmos (right) will launch from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan on Sept. 26, Kazakh time, in their Soyuz TMA-14M spacecraft for a 5 ½ month mission on the International Space Station. Serova will become the fourth Russian woman to fly in space and the first Russian woman to conduct a long duration mission on the station. NASA/Stephanie Stoll

A sign with a model of the Japanese H-IIB rocket welcomes visitors to Minamitane Town, one of only a few small towns located outside of the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency’s (JAXA) Tanegashima Space Center (TNSC), where the launch of an H-IIA rocket carrying the Global Precipitation Measurement (GPM) Core Observatory will take place in the next week, Saturday, Feb. 22, 2014, Tanegashima Island, Japan. The NASA-Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) GPM spacecraft will collect information that unifies data from an international network of existing and future satellites to map global rainfall and snowfall every three hours. Photo Credit: (NASA/Bill Ingalls)

CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. -- Inside the Space Station Processing Facility, or SSPF, at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida, Tom Engler, far right, deputy director of Kennedy’s Center Planning and Development Directorate, or CPDD, and Amy Houts-Gilfriche, a partnership development manager in CPDD, greet new partner Donald Platt with Micro Aerospace Solutions of Melbourne, Fla., during an official welcome ceremony, April 1. NASA signed an agreement with Micro Aerospace Solutions on March 22 for use of an offline hardware processing laboratory and office space at the processing facility. Photo credit: NASA_Kim Shiflett

A jogger runs past a sign welcoming NASA and other visitors to Minamitane Town on Sunday, Feb. 23, 2014, Tanegashima Island, Japan. A Japanese H-IIA rocket carrying the NASA-Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA), Global Precipitation Measurement (GPM) Core Observatory is planned for launch from the space center on Feb. 28, 2014. Once launched, the GPM spacecraft will collect information that unifies data from an international network of existing and future satellites to map global rainfall and snowfall every three hours. Photo Credit: (NASA/Bill Ingalls)

2329: At the Gagarin Cosmonaut Training Center in Star City, Russia, Expedition 41/42 Soyuz Commander Alexander Samokutyaev of the Russian Federal Space Agency (Roscosmos, center) signs a welcome book at the Gagarin Museum Sept. 5 in a traditional ceremony as his crewmates, NASA’s Barry Wilmore (left) and Elena Serova of Roscosmos (right) look on. The trio will launch from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan on Sept. 26, Kazakh time, in their Soyuz TMA-14M spacecraft for a 5 ½ month mission on the International Space Station. Serova will become the fourth Russian woman to fly in space and the first Russian woman to conduct a long duration mission on the station. NASA/Stephanie Stoll

CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. -- A sign welcomes fifth- through eighth-grade students and their parents to the last NASA family education night event at the Astronaut Hall of Fame near the Kennedy Space Center Visitor Complex in Florida. Activities included "gee-whiz" presentations, astronaut appearances, a hovercraft, vortex cannon and alternative fuel vehicles, which promote science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM) education. The event is part of NASA's Summer of Innovation initiative to provide interactive learning experiences to middle school students nationwide during the summer months. The program is a cornerstone of the Educate to Innovate campaign announced by President Barack Obama in November 2009. Photo credit: NASA/Charisse Nahser

During a ribbon cutting ceremony on Aug. 16, 2019, in High Bay 2 of the Vehicle Assembly Building (VAB) at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida, Tom Engler, director of Kennedy’s Center Planning and Development Office, welcomes legislators and guests. The VAB is getting its first commercial tenant. Northrop Grumman signed a Reimbursable Space Act Agreement with NASA for use of the facilities. The company will assemble and test its new OmegA rocket inside the massive facility’s High Bay 2. The company also will modify MLP-3 to serve as the launch vehicle’s assembly and launch platform. Northrop Grumman is developing the OmegA rocket, an intermediate/heavy-class launch vehicle, as part of a launch services agreement with the U.S. Air Force.

CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. -- A sign welcomes children of all ages to a 40- by 70-foot activity tent chock full of LEGO bricks on the NASA Causeway at Kennedy Space Center in Florida. Inside the tent, they will have the opportunity to build their vision of the future with LEGO bricks, marking the beginning of a three-year Space Act Agreement between NASA and The LEGO Group. The partnership is meant to spark the interest of children in science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM). To commemorate the partnership, two small LEGO space shuttles will launch aboard space shuttle Discovery's STS-133 mission to the International Space Station and the company will release four NASA-inspired products in its LEGO CITY line next year. LEGO sets also will fly to the space station aboard Endeavour's STS-134 mission, and will be put together on orbit to demonstrate the challenges faced while building things in microgravity. Photo credit: NASA/Jack Pfaller

2372: At the Gagarin Cosmonaut Training Center in Star City, Russia, Expedition 41/42 Flight Engineer Elena Serova of the Russian Federal Space Agency (Roscosmos, front row, right) signs a welcome book at the Gagarin Museum Sept. 5 in a traditional ceremony as her crewmates, Soyuz Commander Alexander Samokutyaev of Roscosmos (front row, center) and NASA’s Barry Wilmore (front row, left) look on. In the back row are their backups, NASA’s Scott Kelly (back row, left), Gennady Padalka of Roscosmos (back row, center) and Mikhail Kornienko of Roscosmos (back row, right). Wilmore, Samokutyaev and Serova will launch from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan on Sept. 26, Kazakh time, in their Soyuz TMA-14M spacecraft for a 5 ½ month mission on the International Space Station. Serova will become the fourth Russian woman to fly in space and the first Russian woman to conduct a long duration mission on the station. Kelly and Kornienko will launch in March 2015 to spend a full year on the complex. NASA/Stephanie Stoll

2346: At the Gagarin Cosmonaut Training Center in Star City, Russia, Expedition 41/42 Soyuz Commander Alexander Samokutyaev of the Russian Federal Space Agency (Roscosmos, front row, center) signs a welcome book at the Gagarin Museum Sept. 5 in a traditional ceremony as his crewmates, NASA’s Barry Wilmore (front row, left) and Elena Serova of Roscosmos (front row, right) look on. In the back row are their backups, NASA’s Scott Kelly (back row, left), Gennady Padalka of Roscosmos (back row, center) and Mikhail Kornienko of Roscosmos (back row, right). Wilmore, Samokutyaev and Serova will launch from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan on Sept. 26, Kazakh time, in their Soyuz TMA-14M spacecraft for a 5 ½ month mission on the International Space Station. Serova will become the fourth Russian woman to fly in space and the first Russian woman to conduct a long duration mission on the station. Kelly and Kornienko will launch in March 2015 to spend a full year on the complex. NASA/Stephanie Stoll

CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. – Media relations specialist Stephanie Smith from NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory welcomes Tweetup participants at NASA Kennedy Space Center's Press Site in Florida during prelaunch activities for the agency’s Mars Science Laboratory (MSL) launch. Following a series of briefings, participants will tour the center and get a close-up view of Space Launch Complex-41 on Cape Canaveral Air Force Station. The tweeters will share their experiences with followers through the social networking site Twitter. MSL's components include a car-sized rover, Curiosity, which has 10 science instruments designed to search for signs of life, including methane, and help determine if the gas is from a biological or geological source. Liftoff of MSL aboard a United Launch Alliance Atlas V rocket from pad 41 is planned during a launch window which extends from 10:02 a.m. to 11:45 a.m. EST on Nov. 26. For more information, visit http://www.nasa.gov/msl. Photo credit: NASA/Jim Grossmann