NASA's First Korean-American Astronaut (Who's Also a Former Navy SEAL and Harvard Medical Doctor) Is Back on Earth...

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Soyuz Crew Lands Ending Eight-Month Space Research Journey (News Release)

At 12:03 a.m. EST (10:03 a.m. local time), the Soyuz MS-27 spacecraft made a parachute-assisted landing on the steppe of Kazakhstan, southeast of the town of Dzhezkazgan.

NASA astronaut Jonny Kim and Roscosmos cosmonauts Sergey Ryzhikov and Alexey Zubritsky orbited Earth 3,920 times and traveled nearly 104 million miles over the course of their 245-day mission. The Soyuz MS-27 spacecraft launched and docked with the space station on April 8.

This was Kim’s first spaceflight, where he served as flight engineer for Expedition 72 and 73. This was also Zubritsky's first trip to the space station. Ryzhikov has now logged a total of 603 days in space during three trips to the orbital complex, ranking him 13th of all time.

The three crew members will fly by helicopter to Karaganda, Kazakhstan, where recovery teams are based. Kim will board a NASA aircraft and return to Houston, while Ryzhikov and Zubritsky will depart for their training base in Star City, Russia.

Source: NASA.Gov

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