Astronaut Jonny Kim Is Assigned By NASA To The First Space Station Mission
NASA astronaut Jonny Kim will be a part of the forthcoming Expedition 72/73 crew and a flight engineer on his maiden voyage to the International Space Station.
In March 2025, Kim will launch on the Roscosmos Soyuz MS-27 spacecraft along with Sergey Ryzhikov and Alexey Zubritsky, two Roscosmos cosmonauts. The three of them will be at the space station for almost eight months.
Kim’s work on the orbiting laboratory will involve scientific research and technology demonstrations to benefit the people of Earth as well as help the crew get ready for future space trips.
Kim was chosen by NASA to be an astronaut in 2017. Kim assisted mission and crew operations as an Expedition 65 lead operations officer, T-38 operations liaison, and space station capcom chief engineer after completing the basic astronaut candidate training.
Kim, a Los Angeles native, is a lieutenant commander in the US Navy with dual designations as a naval aviator and flight surgeon. Kim was a Navy SEAL enlistee as well. He graduated from Harvard Medical School in Boston with a medical degree and a bachelor’s degree in mathematics. He also did an internship with the Harvard Affiliated Emergency Medicine Residency at Brigham and Women’s Hospital and Massachusetts General Hospital.
Humans have been living and working continuously on the International Space Station for more than 20 years, expanding scientific knowledge and enabling research discoveries that would not be achievable on Earth. NASA uses the station as a vital testbed to better understand and address the difficulties associated with long-term spaceflight and to increase commercial prospects in low Earth orbit. NASA is better equipped to concentrate its resources on deep space missions to the Moon and Mars as commercial enterprises concentrate on offering human space transportation services and destinations as part of a thriving low-earth orbit economy.
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