NASA Astronaut Jonny Kim Soyuz MS-27 Docking

After lifting off from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan, NASA astronaut Jonny Kim is scheduled to dock with the International Space Station at 5:03 a.m. EST (0903 UTC) on Tuesday, April 8.

Kim was selected to become a NASA astronaut in 2017; before joining NASA's astronaut corps, Kim completed more than 100 combat operations as a Navy SEAL. A dual-designated naval aviator and flight surgeon, Kim received his doctorate in medicine from Harvard Medical School.

Accompanied by cosmonauts Sergey Ryzhikov and Alexey Zubritsky, Kim will spend approximately eight months on the International Space Station before returning to Earth in December. This is Kim's first mission to the station.