NASA astronaut Jonny Kim is greeted by Johnson Space Center Director Vanessa Wyche

jsc2025e089532 (Dec. 10, 2025) --- NASA astronaut Jonny Kim, greeted by Johnson Space Center Director Vanessa Wyche, is pictured at Ellington Field outside the Gulfstream V aircraft that returned him to Houston, Texas, from Kazakhstan in Central Asia. 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. In the background (from left), is a NASA employee and NASA astronaut and Chief of the Astronaut Scott Tingle. Credit: NASA/Robert Markowitz