This photo provided by NASA shows the International Space Station as seen from Space Shuttle Atlantis during mission STS-106, which delivered supplies and performed maintenance in September 2000. The first crew of the space station – American Bill Shepherd and Russians Sergei Krikalev and Yuri Gidzenko – arrived less than two months later. Thus began 20 years of international cooperation and a steady stream of crew from around the world. (Photo by NASA via AP Photo)





In this image taken from video footage released by the Roscosmos Space Agency, the Soyuz MS-21 space ship, right, approaches the International Space Station, ISS, during docking to the station, Friday, March 18, 2022. The head of Russia’s space program says the future of the International Space Station hangs in the balance after the United States, the European Union and Canadian space agencies missed a deadline to meet Russian demands for lifting sanctions on Russian enterprises and hardware. (Photo by Roscosmos Space Agency via AP Photo)





Mission Specialists Robert L. Curbeam, Jr (left) and Christer Fuglesang participate in the first of the mission’s three planned sessions of extravehicular activity as construction resumes on the International Space Station in 2008. (Photo by NASA)





Hurricane Genevieve is seen off Mexico's Pacific coast from the International Space Station (ISS) orbiting Earth in an image taken by NASA astronaut Christopher J. Cassidy on August 19, 2020. (Photo by Christopher J. Cassidy/NASA via Reuters)





This July 1, 2020 photo made available by NASA shows the SpaceX Crew Dragon, right, docked to the International Space station, during a spacewalk conducted by astronauts Bob Behnken and Chris Cassidy. On Wednesday, July 29, 2020, SpaceX and NASA cleared the Dragon crew capsule to depart the International Space Station and head home after a two-month flight. (Photo by NASA via AP Photo)





In this photo taken by Russian cosmonaut Oleg Novitsky and provided by Roscosmos Space Agency Press Service, the International Space Station is seen from the Nauka module on Wednesday, August 11, 2021. (Photo by Oleg Novitsky/Roscosmos Space Agency Press Service photo via AP Photo)





As he prepares to conclude his stay aboard the orbiting laboratory this week, astronaut Nick Hague shared this photo on October 2, 2019 saying: “Today is my last Monday living on this orbiting laboratory and I’m soaking up my final views. The @Space_Station is truly an engineering marvel. #MondayMotivation”. (Photo by Nick Hague/NASA)





In this photo provided by NASA, U.S. astronaut and Expedition 66 Flight Engineer Mark Vande Hei peers at the Earth below from inside the seven-windowed cupola, the International Space Station's window to the world on Feb. 4, 2022. The Soyuz MS-19 crew ship is docked to the Rassvet module in the background. Vande Hei has made it through nearly a year in space, but in March 2022 faces what could be his trickiest assignment yet: riding a Russian capsule back to Earth in the midst of deepening tensions between the countries. (Photo by Kayla Barron/NASA via AP Photo)





This image provided by NASA on Wednesday, August 22, 2018 shows Hurricane Lane as seen from the International Space Station. The National Weather Service says the hurricane will still pack a wallop for Hawaii on Thursday before gradually slowing over the next two days. Early Wednesday, the hurricane was 320 miles (515 kilometers) south of Hilo on Hawaii Island and moving northwest toward other islands. (Photo by NASA via AP Photo)





A view out the widow as the ISS passes over Italy on May 2, 2021. (Photo by NASA)





Russia's ISS Progress 75 cargo craft is pictured from the International Space Station on April 27, 2021, after it undocked from the Zvezda service module's aft port, where it had stayed for just longer than a year. The trash-filled 75P reentered Earth's atmosphere above the South Pacific for a fiery but safe demise a day later. (Photo by NASA)





In this view from a window aboard the SpaceX Crew Dragon Endeavour, a pair of the ISS's main solar arrays drape across the Earth's horizon as the orbital lab soars 271 miles above the south Atlantic between Argentina and South Africa on May 20, 2021. (Photo by NASA)





Russian cosmonaut Alexander Skvortsov, Expedition 40 flight engineer, attired in a Russian Orlan spacesuit, participates in a session of extravehicular activity (EVA) in support of science and maintenance on the International Space Station on August 18, 2014. During the five-hour, 11-minute spacewalk, Skvortsov and cosmonaut Oleg Artemyev (out of frame) deployed a small science satellite, retrieved and installed experiment packages and inspected components on the exterior of the orbital laboratory. (Photo by NASA)





This NASA photo obtained released June 19, 2019 shows a set of three CubeSats pictured shortly after being ejected from the Japanese Small Satellite Orbital Deployer attached to a robotic arm outside of the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency's Kibo laboratory module on June 17, 2019. The tiny satellites from Nepal, Sri Lanka and Japan were released into Earth orbit for technology demonstrations.The International Space Station was orbiting 256 miles above the Amazon River in Brazil when an Expedition 59 crewmember took this photograph. (Photo by Handout/NASA/AFP Photo)





A cherry red Tesla Roadster automobile floats through space after it was carried there by SpaceX's Falcon Heavy in this image obtained by Reuters on February 9, 2018. (Photo by SpaceX/Handout via Reuters)