Christina Koch
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Christina Hammock Koch is an American engineer and NASA astronaut. On her mission to the International Space Station in 2019-20 she was part of the first all‑female spacewalk and set the record for the longest spaceflight by a woman.
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Koch took the photograph Earthset during the 2026 Artemis II mission
Koch signals her success in starting a fire during wilderness survival training in 2013.
Expedition 59 crew members Anne McClain, Oleg Kononenko, and David Saint-Jacques welcome their new crew members, Nick Hague, Alexey Ovchinin, and Koch (bottom right) who arrived at the International Space Station on March 14, 2019.
Official crew portrait for Artemis II, from left: NASA Astronauts Christina Koch, Victor Glover, Reid Wiseman, and Canadian Space Agency astronaut Jeremy HansenIn their own words 2
What struck me wasn't necessarily just Earth, it was all the blackness around it. Earth was just this lifeboat hanging undisturbingly [sic] in the universe...
At a press conference in Houston following the successful splashdown of Artemis II in the Pacific Ocean (11 April 2026).
Houston, we have you the same, and it is so great to hear from Earth again.
Shortly after the reacquisition of signal of Artemis II after it passed behind the Moon (6 April 2026).
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Christina Hammock Koch is an American engineer and NASA astronaut. On her mission to the International Space Station in 2019-20 she was part of the first all‑female spacewalk and set the record for the longest spaceflight by a woman. On the Artemis II lunar flyby mission in April 2026, which set the record for human distance from Earth, Koch became the only woman to travel beyond low Earth orbit, and to travel around the Moon.
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