Editor’s Observe: This advisory used to be up to date on March 12, 2025 to mirror a brand new date for media interview alternatives.
NASA will supply interview alternatives with astronaut Jonny Kim starting at 9 a.m. EDT, Wednesday, March 19, to spotlight his upcoming undertaking to the Global Area Station in April.
The digital interviews from Superstar Town, Russia, will movement continue to exist NASA+. Learn to watch NASA content material via a number of platforms, together with social media.
Media all for collaborating should touch the newsroom at NASA’s Johnson Area Heart in Houston no later than 5 p.m., Monday, March 17, at 281-483-5111 or jsccommu@mail.nasa.gov. A replica of NASA’s media accreditation coverage is on-line.
Kim will release on Tuesday, April 8, aboard the Roscosmos Soyuz MS-27 spacecraft, accompanied via Roscosmos cosmonauts Sergey Ryzhikov and Alexey Zubritsky. The trio will spend roughly 8 months aboard the orbital laboratory sooner than returning to Earth within the fall 2025. Throughout his time in orbit, Kim will behavior medical investigations and era demonstrations to lend a hand get ready the workforce for long run area missions and supply advantages to other folks on Earth.
Kim is making his first spaceflight after variety as a part of the 2017 NASA astronaut magnificence. A local of Los Angeles, he’s a U.S. 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 Clinical Faculty in Boston. He finished his internship with the Harvard Affiliated Emergency Medication Residency at Massachusetts Basic Health facility and Brigham and Ladies’s Health facility. After finishing preliminary astronaut candidate coaching, Kim supported undertaking and workforce operations in more than a few roles, together with the Expedition 65 lead operations officer, T-38 operations liaison, and area station capcom leader engineer. Observe @jonnykimusa on X and @jonnykimusa on Instagram.
For greater than 20 years, other folks have lived and labored regularly aboard the Global Area Station, advancing medical wisdom, and making analysis breakthroughs that aren’t imaginable on Earth. The station is a crucial testbed for NASA to grasp and conquer the demanding situations of long-duration spaceflight and to extend industrial alternatives in low Earth orbit. As industrial firms focal point on offering human area transportation products and services and locations as a part of a powerful low Earth orbit economic system, NASA is in a position to focal point extra of its sources on deep area missions to the Moon and Mars.
Be informed extra about Global Area Station analysis and operations at:
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Joshua Finch / Claire O’Shea
Headquarters, Washington
202-358-1100
joshua.a.finch@nasa.gov / claire.a.o’shea@nasa.gov
Raegan Scharfetter
Johnson Area Heart, Houston
281-910-4989
raegan.r.scharfetter@nasa.gov