NASA astronaut Johnny Kim is of Korean descent
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(Seoul = Yonhap News) Reporter Lim Ji-woo = NASA announced on the 29th (local time) that Johnny Kim (40), a Korean astronaut at the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA), will make the first his mission on the International. Space Station (ISS) next year.
According to the NASA website, Johnny Kim will board the Soyuz MS-27 spacecraft headed for the ISS with Russian Federal Space Agency (Roscosmos) astronauts Sergei Ryzhikov and Alexei Zubritsky next March. – year.
They will stay on the ISS for about eight months and conduct scientific research and experiments.
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Johnny Kim, from a Korean immigrant family who settled in California, is an astrologer turned doctor who received a doctorate in medicine from Harvard Medical School.
He worked as an emergency room doctor at Massachusetts General Hospital and Brigham and Women’s Hospital in Boston, and before that he joined the Navy SEALs, a special forces unit of the US Navy, and performed more than 100 combat operations .
He was selected as a NASA astronaut candidate in 2017, and after about two years of training, he was finally selected as an astronaut to carry out the Artemis project, NASA’s lunar and Mars exploration plan.
At the time, about 18,000 people applied to be selected as astronauts to participate in the Artemis project, and 11 people, including Johnny Kim, were finally selected after overcoming competition rate about 1,600 to 1.
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2024/08/29 19:50 Sent
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