{"id":14029,"date":"2025-04-12T15:01:13","date_gmt":"2025-04-12T15:01:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/14029\/"},"modified":"2025-04-12T15:01:13","modified_gmt":"2025-04-12T15:01:13","slug":"nasa-trained-navy-seal-jonny-kim-docked-at-the-iss-see-photos","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/14029\/","title":{"rendered":"NASA-Trained Navy SEAL Jonny Kim Docked at the ISS; See Photos"},"content":{"rendered":"

Becoming an astronaut is a popular career aspiration for children, but Kim said he didn’t have a dream job until he turned 16 and was drawn to serving in the Navy.<\/p>\n

“As a kid, I did not have really any dreams until I was 16 years old, and I heard about Naval Special Warfare<\/a> and the kinds of things that Naval Special Warfare operators do,” Kim said in an interview<\/a> with the peer-reviewed journal Annals of Emergency Medicine.<\/p>\n

“That was really the first time, when I was 16, that I actually had a vision and a dream and felt that I was called to do something,” he continued. “I never once thought I could be a physician, or an astronaut, or anything else.”<\/p>\n

When Kim, a Korean-American<\/a> born to immigrant parents, told his mother about his decision to enlist, he said she tearfully urged him to reconsider.<\/p>\n

“My mother, with tears in her eyes, [said], ‘It’s not too late; you can come home, and we’ll do this family business,'” Kim told Business Insider in 2020. “And for a fleeting moment, I considered it.”<\/p>\n

But Kim said, “There wasn’t anyone or anything to talk me out of it. It was the first time I set my sights on a dream.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Becoming an astronaut is a popular career aspiration for children, but Kim said he didn’t have a dream…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":14030,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3844],"tags":[9700,9701,9695,875,401,7547,9694,9696,9697,874,9693,70,9698,413,9702,9699,16,15,6495],"class_list":{"0":"post-14029","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-space","8":"tag-41-year-old","9":"tag-bronze","10":"tag-business-insider","11":"tag-earth","12":"tag-harvard","13":"tag-iss","14":"tag-jonny-kim","15":"tag-journey","16":"tag-mile","17":"tag-nasa","18":"tag-navy-seal-jonny-kim","19":"tag-science","20":"tag-silver-star","21":"tag-space","22":"tag-space-tuesday","23":"tag-training","24":"tag-uk","25":"tag-united-kingdom","26":"tag-week"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/114325597926133063","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14029","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14029"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14029\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/14030"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14029"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14029"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14029"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}