Christina Koch who works with the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) became the female astronaut who had stayed longest in a single space journey. The Michigan-born engineer had stayed aboard the International Space Station for 11 months.
Koch had left the earth since 14th March 2019 and returned on 6th February 2020. She, Luca Parmitano of the European Space Agency and Alexander Skvortsov of the Russian space agency landed at exactly 09:12 GMT on the Kazakh steppe.
The record-making scientist had spent 328 days living in space. Local Kazakhs riding on their horses had been among the first set of witnesses as the capsule landed in the steppe.
Also, NASA and other space authorities had support crews on the ground. They quickly gathered around the three astronauts and removed them from their space vessel.
When she got the chance to speak, Christina Koch who turned 41 said she had loved her stay.
“It’s really fun to be in a place where you can just bounce around between the ceiling and the floor whenever you want.”
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She had also revealed that she would miss “micro-gravity”. This is not, however, the first time that the now-famous engineer would make space history.
In October 2019, Koch and NASA counterpart Jessica Meir – her classmate from NASA training had made history when they accomplished the first-ever all-woman spacewalk. They had stepped outside the International Space Station to replace a faulty battery charger.
After the initial celebration around the successful landing, the trio from space would be undergoing medical examinations before they can go home.
Space experiences have always interested people and huge accomplishments have come from these explorations. The first woman in space was Soviet cosmonaut Valentina Tereshkova. Her spaceflight in 1963 remains the only solo mission carried out by a woman to date.
With this journey, Koch beat the previous record for a single spaceflight by a woman. NASA veteran Peggy Whitson had held it before for her flight in 2016-17.
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