FILE - This Feb. 17, 2021 file photo, shows a full-scale model of the Ingenuity helicopter displayed for the media at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, Calif. Space engineer Loay Elbasyouni was part of the NASA team that made history this month by launching an experimental helicopter from the surface of Mars. But he says an expedition to his hometown in the Gaza Strip, where posters celebrate his achievement, feels even farther off because of Israeli and Egyptian restrictions. (AP Photo/Damian Dovarganes, File)

Abdelwahab Elbasyouni, an uncle of Loay Elbasyouni, a space engineer who was part of the NASA team that made history this month by launching an experimental helicopter from the surface of Mars, stands on the porch of the house decorated in accolades to him, where Loay's family used to live, in Beit Hanoun, Gaza Strip, Monday, April 26, 2021. Loay Elbasyouni says an expedition to his hometown in the Gaza Strip feels even farther off because of Israeli and Egyptian restrictions. (AP Photo/Adel Hana)

FLE - In this April 22, 2021 file photo, made available by NASA, the Mars Ingenuity helicopter photographs its shadow with its black-and-white navigation camera during its second flight. Space engineer Loay Elbasyouni was part of the NASA team that made history this month by launching an experimental helicopter from the surface of Mars. But he says an expedition to his hometown in the Gaza Strip, where posters celebrate his achievement, feels even farther off because of Israeli and Egyptian restrictions. (NASA/JPL-Caltech via AP, File)

This image provided by NASA shows Loay Elbasyouni, Palestinian engineer who is part of NASA's Ingenuity Mars Helicopter team on April 25, 2021. Elbasyouni has made an astonishing journey from the hardscrabble town of Beit Hanoun near the heavily-guarded Israeli frontier to the U.S. space agency's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in California, where he helped design the Ingenuity helicopter.(NASA via AP)