PRE-LAUNCH INTERVIEWS WITH NASA ASTRONAUT JONNY KIM, Mar 19, 2025, Star City, Russia, 9:00 am ET

NASA astronaut Jonny Kim will remotely answer questions from the media on March 19, 2025 at 9:00 am ET (NASA changed the date to March 19).  He is at Russia’s cosmonaut training facility, Star City, outside Moscow preparing to depart for the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan where he will launch to the ISS with two Russian colleagues on April 8 on Soyuz MS-27.

His Russian crewmates are Sergey Ryzhikov and Alexey Zubritsky.  They will spend about 8 months on the ISS.