Benjamin L. Schmitt is a research associate at the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics, a senior fellow for democratic resilience at the Center for European Policy Analysis, and a “Rethinking Diplomacy” fellow at the Duke University Center for International and Global Studies.
Russia's Soyuz MS-07 spacecraft, carrying people to the International Space Station, blasts off at the Russian-leased Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan on Dec. 17, 2017.
