NASA astronaut Jonny Kim exits the Gulfstream V aircraft that returned him to Houston

jsc2025e089531 (Dec. 10, 2025) --- NASA astronaut Jonny Kim exits the Gulfstream V aircraft that returned him to Houston, Texas, from Kazakhstan in Central Asia. Waiting to greet Kim are (from left), NASA astronauts Nicole Mann and Scott, Johnson Space Center (JSC) Deputy Director Stephen Koerner, and JSC Director Vanessa Wyche. The day before, Kim had landed in Kazakhstan aboard the Soyuz MS-27 crew spacecraft with Roscosmos cosmonauts Sergey Ryzhikov and Alexey Zubritsky after completing a 245-day research mission aboard the International Space Station. Credit: NASA/Robert Markowitz