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NASA Astronaut Jonny Kim

Jonny Kim was selected as a NASA astronaut in 2017.

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Kim is a U.S. Navy SEAL and has completed more than 100 combat operations and is the recipient of the Silver Star and Bronze Star with Combat “V.”

Kim is a U.S. Navy SEAL and has completed more than 100 combat operations and is the recipient of the Silver Star and Bronze Star with Combat “V."

Kim was commissioned as a naval officer through an enlisted-to-officer program and earned his degree in mathematics at the University of San Diego and a Doctor of Medicine at Harvard Medical School.

Kim was commissioned as a naval officer through an enlisted-to-officer program and earned his degree in mathematics at the University of San Diego and a Doctor of Medicine at Harvard Medical School.

Kim served as the International Space Station’s Increment Lead for Expedition 65 in 2021. During his first mission to the International Space Station, NASA astronaut Jonny Kim will serve as a flight engineer and member of the upcoming Expedition 72/73 crew. Kim will launch on the Roscosmos Soyuz MS-27 spacecraft in March 2025, accompanied by Roscosmos cosmonauts Sergey Ryzhikov and Alexey Zubritsky. The trio will spend approximately eight months at the space station.

Kim served as the International Space Station’s Increment Lead for Expedition 65 in 2021. During his first mission to the International Space Station, NASA astronaut Jonny Kim will serve as a flight engineer and member of the upcoming Expedition 72/73 crew. Kim will launch on the Roscosmos Soyuz MS-27 spacecraft in March 2025, accompanied by Roscosmos cosmonauts Sergey Ryzhikov and Alexey Zubritsky. The trio will spend approximately eight months at the space station.

(10 December 2021) WB-57 SFRT flight participant Jonny Kim in Flight Protection Suits. (Credit: NASA/Norah Moran)

(8 December 2012) NASA WB-57F Space Flight Readiness Training (SFRT) Program with astronaut Jonny Kim & WB-57 pilot Adam Klein. (Credit: NASA/Robert Markowitz)

(8 December 2020) NASA Astronauts Stephanie Wilson, Jonny Kim, and Randy Bresnik take a look at the Orion spacecraft simulator that recently arrived at the agency’s Johnson Space Center in Houston on Dec. 8, 2020. (Credit: NASA/Radislav Sinyak)

(21 September 2017) NASA candidate Jonny Kim readies for helicopter water survival training at NASA Johnson Space Center’s Neutral Buoyancy Laboratory in Houston. (Credit: NASA/Josh Valcarcel)

(8 December 2021) NASA WB-57F Space Flight Readiness Training (SFRT) Program with astronaut Jonny Kim & WB-57 pilot Adam Klein. “During today’s high-altitude Space Flight Readiness Training (SFRT) flight for Jonny Kim, we flew to a maximum altitude of 64,360 feet mean sea level which means the flag flew both into the Space Equivalent Zone and above the Armstrong’s Line. The aircraft was WB-57F NASA926.” (Credit: Robert Markowitz)

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Graduation Ceremony of the 2017 class of Astronaut Candidates.

(10 January 2020) Graduation Ceremony of the 2017 class of Astronaut Candidates. (Credit: NASA/Robert Markowitz)

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