NASA Astronaut Jonny Kim Soyuz MS-27 Hatch Opening

After lifting off from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan and docking with the International Space Station, the Soyuz MS-27 mission to the station is scheduled to open its hatches at approximately 7:20 a.m. EST (1120 UTC) on Tuesday, April 8.

NASA astronaut Jonny Kim, accompanied by cosmonauts Sergey Ryzhikov and Alexey Zubritsky, will spend approximately eight months on the International Space Station before returning to Earth in December.

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. This is Kim's first mission to the station.