The Soyuz MS-15 spacecraft carrying the crew formed of Jessica Meir of the U.S., Oleg Skripochka of Russia and Hazzaa Ali Almansoori of United Arab Emirates blasts off to the International Space Station (ISS) from the launchpad at the Baikonur Cosmodrome, Kazakhstan on September 25, 2019. (Photo by Shamil Zhumatov/Reuters)





A Soyuz-2.1b rocket booster with a Fregat upper stage and 36 UK telecommunications and internet satellites blasts off from the Vostochny cosmodrome in Russia's Far East on March 25, 2021. (Photo by Handout/Russian Space Agency Roscosmos/AFP Photo)





A SpaceX Falcon Heavy rocket, carrying the Arabsat 6A communications satellite, lifts off from the Kennedy Space Center in Cape Canaveral, Florida, U.S., April 11, 2019. (Photo by Thom Baur/Reuters)





The Proton-M rocket with the Breeze-M upper stage, carrying the Russian communications satellites Express 80 and Express 103, lifts off from the launch pad at Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan on July 31, 2020. The satellites are owned by Russian Satellite Communication Company. (Photo by Roscosmos Press Office/TASS)





In this January 19, 2020 file photok a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket lifts off from Launch Complex 39A at NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Cape Canaveral, Fla., carrying the unmanned Crew Dragon spacecraft on the company's In-Flight Abort Test. The flight test demonstrated the spacecraft's escape capabilities in preparation for crewed flights to the International Space Station as part of the agency's Commercial Crew Program. (Photo by Tony Gray/NASA via AP Photo)





The Soyuz MS-17 spacecraft carrying the crew formed of Kathleen Rubins of NASA, Sergey Ryzhikov and Sergey Kud-Sverchkov of the Russian space agency Roscosmos blasts off to the International Space Station (ISS) from the launchpad at the Baikonur Cosmodrome, Kazakhstan on October 14, 2020. (Photo by Russian space agency Roscosmos/Handout via Reuters)





The Soyuz MS-17 spacecraft carrying the International Space Station (ISS) expedition 64 crew of NASA astronaut Kate Rubins and Russian cosmonauts Sergey Ryzhikov and Sergey Kud-Sverchkov blasts off to the ISS from the Russian-leased Baikonur cosmodrome in Kazakhstan on October 14, 2020. (Photo by Andrey Shelepin/GCTC//Reuters)





Soyuz-2.1a carrier rocket with the Progress MS-16 cargo spacecraft blasts off to the International Space Station (ISS) from the launchpad at the Baikonur Cosmodrome, Kazakhstan on February 15, 2021. (Photo by Russian space agency Roscosmos/Handout via Reuters)





In this handout photo released by Roscosmos Space Agency Press Service the Soyuz-2.1A rocket booster with Soyuz MS-16 space ship carrying a new crew to the International Space Station, ISS, blasts off at the Russian leased Baikonur cosmodrome, Kazakhstan, Thursday, April 9, 2020. The Russian rocket carries U.S. astronaut Chris Cassidy, Russian cosmonauts Anatoly Ivanishin and Ivan Vagner. (Photo by Roscosmos Space Agency Press Service via AP Photo)





In this Friday, July 8, 2011 file photo, the space shuttle Atlantis lifts off from the Kennedy Space Center in Cape Canaveral, Fla. Atlantis was the 135th and last space shuttle launch for NASA. (Photo by John Raoux/AP Photo)





A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket amd Crew Dragon spacecraft carrying NASA astronauts Robert Behnken and Douglas Hurley lifts off in this false color infrared exposure at the NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Cape Canaveral, Florida, May 30, 2020. (Photo by ill Ingalls/NASA)





This photo taken on December 14, 2020, and distributed by Russian Defense Ministry Press Service shows, a test launch of a heavy-class carrier rocket Angara-A5 from the launch pad of site No. 35 of the State Test Cosmodrome of the Ministry of Defence of the Russian Federation at Plesetsk launch facility in the Arkhangelsk Region of northwestern Russia. The Angara-A5 is the prospective heavy-lift rocket that is expected to enter service in the following years. (Photo by Russian Defense Ministry Press Service via AP Photo)





The Soyuz MS-17 spacecraft carrying the crew formed of Kathleen Rubins of NASA, Sergey Ryzhikov and Sergey Kud-Sverchkov of the Russian space agency Roscosmos blasts off to the International Space Station (ISS) from the launchpad at the Baikonur Cosmodrome, Kazakhstan on October 14, 2020. (Photo by Andrey Shelepin/GCTC/Russian space agency Roscosmos/Handout via Reuters)





A Long March-5 rocket, carrying an orbiter, lander and rover as part of the Tianwen-1 mission to Mars, lifts off from the Wenchang Space Launch Centre in southern China's Hainan Province on July 23, 2020. (Photo by Noel Celis/AFP Photo)





A United Launch Alliance Atlas V rocket lifts off from pad 41 at the Cape Canaveral Air Force Station Thursday, July 30, 2020, in Cape Canaveral, Fla. The mission will send a Mars rover to the Red Planet to search for signs of life, explore the planet's geology and much more. (Photo by John Raoux/AP Photo)