Overview

• The Soyuz MS-27 spacecraft launched from the Baikonur Cosmodrome on April 8, 2025, at 1:47 a.m. EDT and docked with the ISS at 4:57 a.m. EDT after a three-hour journey.
• NASA astronaut Jonny Kim, a former Navy SEAL and Harvard-trained physician, is joined by Russian cosmonauts Sergey Ryzhikov and Alexey Zubritsky on this mission.
• The eight-month mission will involve 50 scientific experiments and technology demonstrations, focusing on long-term human spaceflight and advancing future exploration goals.
• The mission highlights continued US-Russia cooperation in space exploration, a relationship that has endured despite broader geopolitical tensions.
• This marks the first spaceflight for Kim and Zubritsky, while Ryzhikov embarks on his third mission, underscoring the Soyuz spacecraft’s decades-long reliability.