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NASA astronaut Jonny Kim flew home from the International Space Station packed tight with two Roscosmos cosmonauts, their Soyuz spacecraft landing Tuesday in the frozen steppes of Kazakhstan to complete an eight-month stay in space.

Kim launched to to the station back on April 8 with cosmonauts Sergey Ryzhikov and Alexey Zubritsky aboard the Soyuz MS-27 spacecraft and spent nearly 245 days in space, as part of Expeditions 72 and 73 on board the station.

It was Kim’s first spaceflight, and he was the penultimate member of his 11-member NASA astronaut class, known as The Turtles, to make it to space. The final member, Zena Cardman, remains on board the station having flown up as a member of Crew-11, which isn’t slated to return until early 2026

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