All the way through his first venture to the World House Station, NASA astronaut Jonny Kim will function a flight engineer and member of the approaching Expedition 72/73 staff.
Kim will release at the Roscosmos Soyuz MS-27 spacecraft in March 2025, accompanied by way of Roscosmos cosmonauts Sergey Ryzhikov and Alexey Zubritsky. The trio will spend roughly 8 months on the area station.
Whilst aboard the orbiting laboratory, Kim will behavior clinical investigations and generation demonstrations to lend a hand get ready the staff for long term area missions and supply advantages to other folks on Earth.
NASA decided on Kim as an astronaut in 2017. After finishing the preliminary astronaut candidate coaching, Kim supported venture and staff operations in quite a lot of roles together with the Expedition 65 lead operations officer, T-38 operations liaison, and area station capcom leader engineer.
A local of Los Angeles, Kim is a United States Army lieutenant commander and twin designated naval aviator and flight surgeon. Kim additionally served as an enlisted Army SEAL. He holds a bachelor’s stage in Arithmetic from the College of San Diego and a clinical stage from Harvard Scientific College in Boston, and finished his internship with the Harvard Affiliated Emergency Medication Residency at Massachusetts Basic Medical institution and Brigham and Girls’s Medical institution.
For greater than twenty years, people have lived and labored frequently aboard the World House Station, advancing clinical wisdom, and making analysis breakthroughs now not conceivable on Earth. The station is a essential testbed for NASA to grasp and triumph over the demanding situations of long-duration spaceflight and to make bigger business alternatives in low Earth orbit. As business firms focal point on offering human area transportation products and services and locations as a part of a powerful low Earth orbit financial system, NASA is in a position to extra absolutely focal point its sources on deep area missions to the Moon and Mars.
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