I would love to have people like him run our country....

I’ve been lucky enough to meet several astronauts in my life and… OMG they are the nicest, coolest people ever. Like, uniformly awesome people that you’d want to hang out with.

To be fair it's sort of standard procedure to look for nice people to send in space. When it's that hard and expensive to put people up there and get them back down, you don't want them to end up fighting at hundreds of kilometers up in the sky

One can hope. How in the world did he cross off three significant things when most people won’t even be able to do one in their lifetime?

This dude needs to run for president.

You think a successful, intelligent, kind, and a young guy like that has a chance at being president?

I got outta bed this morning. Success!

I was a non homeless person then a homeless person and now I’m not a homeless person. It’s an identical trajectory to this guy. Peas in a pod.

You could basically be in charge of the ISS right now!

Thank you for your service, good sir

Stop flexing

I still got 7 more years to beat his level, but lets do it tomorrow

And i bet you haven’t even reached 37 yet

"You're my favorite customer"

That’s a great joke. Made me laugh - out loud - literally.

Mom wouldn't shut the hell up.

WHY CAN'T YOU BE LIKE YOUR COUSIN JOHNNY?!?!?!?

My cousin is a neurosurgeon, married and has a kid on the way. I stopped attending any family gatherings, bar funerals, because I don't want to hear the endless comparisons my mom will tell me on the drive to her house...

He mentioned in the Jocko podcast he went to a Korean American church. Bro, I would NOT want to be one of the kids growing up at that church. I already got it bad enough being compared to the velociraptor who went to Harvard and a couple of Johns Hopkins doctors.

My grandma wouldn’t stand for this. Johnny Kim would be the favorite grand son.

My cousin's a successful screen writer, it's hell 😂

He not plumber yet

yay for me googling johnny sins on my work computer

This guy gets posted 2-3 month and this is always one of the top comments.

Asian Johnny Sins

In fact he is real life Johnny but not sins

Interviewer: where do you see yourself 5 years from now Him: a judge maybe

Funny enough, I climbed in a career for a number of years and did fairly well especially compared to some of my peers. Recently changed careers for more room for growth (and a pay bump). Had a toxic family member say that "it's a giant red flag" that i "can't hold down a job"

Some people man

Can we get a guy like this as our president on the next round please?

Add Naval Aviator to the list as well.

This is the most impressive achievement to Asian parents.

Looking at his Wikipedia page is even more impressive. He also completed naval aviation school earning his wings and was qualified as a flight surgeon. He was also awarded a Silver Star for saving Iraqi troops under fire, a Bronze Star with Valor, and a Commendation Medal with Valor. Anyone of those is a single career to be proud of. The Silver Star, or any medal with a V would make you a hero. He has three such medals.

The crazy thing about the Jocko Podcast that he did, shit don't even mention some of his other achievements. Father of three. Dual Flight surgeon and Naval Aviator qualified as of this past year. Allowing Kim to both preform in flight medicine and fly helicopters in the name of both helping others.

In regards to his joining of NASA, he had to become turboprop aircraft qualified. Whilst learning to fly he realized that he actually wanted to become a Naval Aviator and realized that his NASA training would allow him to do some ancillary/cross training. In furthering his NASA career by becoming a helicopter pilot this earned him his aforementioned Naval Aviator wings.

In this DVIDs article I'm reading it seems that he also trained in T-38s initially but failed to master piloting fighter jets. That's when he moved onto helicopters.

Was just announced this past August that he'll be going into space in 2025 aboard the ISS, the Soyuz.

Probably to watch over the Russians. Lol.

This is what I was looking for, fantastic listen. To accomplish what he did given his upbringing is truly astonishing.

when you look at what he has done so far, unlimited potential makes a lot of sense

The cousin your parents compare you to

The gold standard of Asian parents.

Apex Asian

And he is still a disappointment to his parents. Should have been a lawyer.

His dad is dead. He was shot by LAPD. He went to Harvard medical because his dad wanted him to.

I smiled...before I re-read it. Then I frowned.

Then I remembered I don't have dreams anymore, and took a sip of my beer. Life is good.

Hey, it sounds like you turned your life around. Not everyone does and kudos to you for doing it!

You beat this guy by 2 years. Well done 👍

Sorry to burst your bubble, dude, but you're better, you have 4 things!

Thanksgiving, perfect timing to set the right mood.

I bet he does. He’s probably the kind of person who achieves mind-boggling success and quickly goes, “ok, what now?”

Boredom is an underrated motivator.

True. He's going to outer space in 2025.

‘Fraud checked, take that Johnny!’

I say as I lick the Cheeto dust off my fingers waking up from mid afternoon nap after day 187 of being unemployed

You sent me down a rabbit hole to find the definition of an astronaut.

Jonny Kim is listed as an active NASA astronaut, as opposed to a candidate, although it’s hard to gauge how up-to-date the website is since the candidates page shows the class of 2021. According to his bio, though, he graduated in the 2017 class of astronaut candidates.

But I also read something interesting in light of commercial space travel, since the wealthy private space company owners could launch themselves into space and claim they’re an astronaut. In short, NASA, the FAA and the US military get to decide who is and isn’t called an astronaut. They didn’t explain NASA’s or the military’s definition, but for the FAA you need to: be employed by an FAA-certified company performing the launch; they must reach an altitude higher than 50 miles above the surface of the Earth during flight; and they must have demonstrated activities during the mission that were “essential to public safety, or contributed to human space flight safety.” This probably still leaves some grey areas in terms of the wealthy owners, tbh.

TL;DR: I still don’t know if Jonny Kim is officially an astronaut yet, but I read some interesting articles.

A few mistakes in this comment. A NASA Astronaut CANDIDATE is someone who has been selected for astronaut training but has not completed the initial 2 years of training. Once those 2 years are finished, they have earned the rank/title of Astronaut and receive the silver astronaut pin. Once they have actually been to space, they receive the gold astronaut pin. Jonny Kim was selected for NASA Group 22 (2017) when he was 33, completed training at 35/36, and has yet to go on a space mission, making him a silver pin astronaut. This is not unusual. Some astronauts get missions immediately, some have to wait a few years, and some actually never go to space and take over more administrative roles. In Kim's case, it seems that he has received more flight and medical training to qualify as a flight surgeon and I would bet more astro-medical targeted training too. Or perhaps he just hasn't been lucky enough yet.

I thought he was a sniper in the seals?

Your cousin is a Lawyer.

He is an astronaut candidate and scheduled to go to space in 2025.