NASA astronaut Christina Koch shatters female spaceflight record.
6 min readChristina Koch marked a historic first for the longest space mission for a woman aboard the International Space StationA swim in the Gulf of Mexico paired with chips and salsa will be first for NASA astronaut Christina Koch when returns to Earth next week, having achieved a historic first:-- with more than 300 days on the International Space Station.
She will return on Feb. 6th after 328 days in space, first landing in Kazakhstan before taking a NASA Gulfstream plane back to the United States.so scientists could gather information on long-duration space flights -- missions that go longer than the average six months -- which could help guide research on future expeditions.
U.S. astronaut Christina Koch, member of the main crew of the expedition to the International Space Station , speaks with her relatives through a safety glass prior the launch of Soyuz MS-12 space ship at the Russian leased Baikonur cosmodrome, Kazakhstan, March 14, 2019."Just by virtue of being here and all of the physiological and human research studies that I’m a part of, it’s pushing the envelope on what we can say is normal for a long duration mission," she said.
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