{"id":340458,"date":"2025-12-10T05:57:13","date_gmt":"2025-12-10T05:57:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/340458\/"},"modified":"2025-12-10T05:57:13","modified_gmt":"2025-12-10T05:57:13","slug":"nasa-astronaut-and-los-angeles-native-jonny-kim-returns-to-earth-after-245-days-onboard-international-space-station","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/340458\/","title":{"rendered":"NASA astronaut and Los Angeles native Jonny Kim returns to Earth after 245 days onboard International Space Station"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"KABC logo\" class=\"awXxV NDJZt sJeUN IJwXl CfkUa EknAv NwgWd \" data-testid=\"prism-image\" draggable=\"false\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/origin-kabc.png\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Tuesday, December 9, 2025 6:37PM<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"data:image\/svg;base64,iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAABAAAAAJCAQAAACRI2S5AAAAEElEQVR42mNkIAAYRxWAAQAG9gAKqv6+AwAAAABJRU5ErkJggg==\" alt=\"NASA astronaut and LA native Jonny Kim back on Earth after ISS mission\"\/><\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao MvWXB TjIXL aGjvy ebVHC \">NASA astronaut Jonny Kim, a Los Angeles native, returned to Earth after 245 days onboard the International Space Station.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">Kim and cosmonauts Sergey Ryzhikov and Alexey Zubritsky made a safe return Monday night after the successful landing of their Soyuz descent module on the snowy steppe of Kazakhstan.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">Kim, Ryzhikov, and Zubritsky completed 3,920 orbits around Earth and traveled nearly 104 million miles, according to NASA.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">The undocking of the Soyuz MS-27 spacecraft from the ISS marked the end of ISS Expedition 73 and the beginning of Expedition 74 for the seven astronauts and cosmonauts remaining aboard the station.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">ABC News contributed to this report.<\/p>\n<p>Copyright \u00a9 2025 KABC Television, LLC. All rights reserved.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Tuesday, December 9, 2025 6:37PM NASA astronaut Jonny Kim, a Los Angeles native, returned to Earth after 245&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":340459,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[48],"tags":[171027,79,193],"class_list":["post-340458","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-space","tag-171027","tag-science","tag-space"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/340458","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=340458"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/340458\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/340459"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=340458"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=340458"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=340458"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}