{"id":340775,"date":"2025-12-10T09:56:08","date_gmt":"2025-12-10T09:56:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/340775\/"},"modified":"2025-12-10T09:56:08","modified_gmt":"2025-12-10T09:56:08","slug":"la-born-nasa-astronaut-jonny-kim-returns-to-earth-after-245-days-nbc-los-angeles","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/340775\/","title":{"rendered":"LA-born NASA astronaut Jonny Kim returns to Earth after 245 days \u2013 NBC Los Angeles"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nbclosangeles.com\/tag\/nasa\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">NASA<\/a> astronaut Jonny Kim, who was born and raised in Los Angeles, returned to Earth Tuesday after 245 days in space.<\/p>\n<p>Kim and Roscosmos cosmonauts Sergey Ryzhikov and Alexey Zubritsky were part of an eight-month science mission on the International Space Station. The crew&#8217;s Soyuz MS-27 spacecraft landed Tuesday morning in Kazakhstan after departing from the ISS a day earlier.<\/p>\n<p>Kim and his crewmates <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nbclosangeles.com\/news\/national-international\/us-russian-crew-of-3-launches-to-the-international-space-station\/3673019\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">launched to the ISS on April 8<\/a>. Over the course of their stay, they orbited Earth 3,920 times in the first space flight for Kim and Zubritsky.<\/p>\n<p>Aboard the Space Station, Kim studied behavior of bioprinted tissues containing blood vessels in microgravity. The aim was to advance space-based tissue production to treat patients on Earth.<\/p>\n<p>He also evaluated the remote command of robots for a study that could lead to the development of robotic assistance for future space missions and worked on development of in-space manufacturing of DNA-mimicking nanomaterials. The process could improve drug delivery tech on Earth.<\/p>\n<p>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tAstronaut Jonny Kim takes some questions from students while in space. Video broadcast Wednesday April 30, 2025 on Today in LA.\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>The crew was set to return to a recovery staging area in Kazakhstan before Kim boards a NASA aircraft for the agency\u2019s Johnson Space Center in Houston.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nasa.gov\/people\/jonny-kim\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Kim<\/a> was selected by NASA in 2017. The former navy SEAL who completed more than 100 combat operations was born and raised in Los Angeles, the son of Korean-American immigrants.<\/p>\n<p>He attended Santa Monica High School.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"NASA astronaut Jonny Kim, who was born and raised in Los Angeles, returned to Earth Tuesday after 245&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":340776,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[48],"tags":[718,79,193],"class_list":["post-340775","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-space","tag-nasa","tag-science","tag-space"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/340775","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=340775"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/340775\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/340776"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=340775"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=340775"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=340775"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}