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MOSCOW (AP) — NASA astronaut Jonny Kim and two Russian crewmates
arrived at the International Space Station on Tuesday on board a
Russian spacecraft.
A Soyuz booster rocket lifted off as scheduled from the
Russia-leased Baikonur launch facility in Kazakhstan to put the
Soyuz MS-27 carrying the trio in orbit. They docked at the
station just over three hours later.
Kim and Russia’s Sergey Ryzhikov and Alexey Zubritsky are
scheduled to spend about eight months at the space outpost.
NASA said Kim will conduct scientific investigations and
technology demonstrations to help prepare the crew for future
space missions and provide benefits to people on Earth. A native
of Los Angeles, Kim is a U.S. Navy lieutenant commander and
dual-designated naval aviator and flight surgeon.
Kim, Ryzhikov and Zubritsky are joining NASA astronauts Don
Pettit, Anne McClain and Nichole Ayers, Japan Aerospace
Exploration Agency’s astronaut Takuya Onishi and Russian
cosmonauts Alexey Ovchinin, Ivan Vagner and Kirill Peskov on the
space outpost.
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