[NASA] NASA Astronaut Jonny Kim to Discuss Eight-Month Space Station Mission

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NASA astronaut Jonny Kim poses inside the International Space Station’s cupola as it orbits 265 miles above the Indian Ocean near Madagascar.

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NASA astronaut Jonny Kim will recap his recent mission aboard the International Space Station during a news conference at 3:30 p.m. EST Friday, Dec. 19, from the agency’s Johnson Space Center in Houston.

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Media interested in participating in person must contact the NASA Johnson newsroom no later than 5 p.m. Thursday, Dec. 18, at 281-483-5111 or *****@*****.tld.

Media wishing to participate by phone must contact the Johnson newsroom no later than two hours before the start of the event. To ask questions by phone, media must dial into the news conference no later than 15 minutes prior to the start of the call. NASA’s

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Kim returned to Earth on Dec. 9, along with Roscosmos cosmonauts Sergey Ryzhikov and Alexey Zubritsky. He logged 245 days as an Expedition 72/73 flight engineer during his first spaceflight. The trio completed 3,920 orbits of the Earth over the course of their nearly 104-million-mile journey. They also saw the arrival of nine visiting spacecraft and the departure of six.

During his mission, Kim contributed to a wide range of

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and technology demonstrations. He studied the behavior of bioprinted tissues containing blood vessels in microgravity for

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helping advance space-based tissue production to treat patients on Earth. He also evaluated the remote command of multiple robots in space for the

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study, which could support the development of robotic assistants for future exploration missions. Additionally, Kim worked on developing in-space manufacturing of

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, which could improve drug delivery technologies and support emerging therapeutics and regenerative medicine. 

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Jimi Russell
Headquarters, Washington
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Shaneequa Vereen
Johnson Space Center, Houston
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