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NASA Astronaut Christina Koch

Christina Hammock Koch was selected as a NASA astronaut in 2013 and is currently assigned as a mission specialist on the Artemis II mission to the moon. She most recently served as a flight engineer onboard the International Space Station as part of Expedition 59, 60, and 61.

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Koch set a record for the longest single spaceflight by a woman with a total of 328 days in space and participated in the first all-female spacewalks.

Koch set a record for the longest single spaceflight by a woman with a total of 328 days in space and participated in the first all-female spacewalks.

Koch attended North Carolina State University in Raleigh, North Carolina, where she earned Bachelor of Science degrees in Electrical Engineering and Physics and a Master of Science degree in Electrical Engineering.

Koch attended North Carolina State University in Raleigh, North Carolina, where she earned Bachelor of Science degrees in Electrical Engineering and Physics and a Master of Science degree in Electrical Engineering.

Serving as a flight engineer on the ISS for Expeditions 59, 60 and 61, Koch and her crewmates contributed to hundreds of experiments in biology, Earth science, human research, physical science and technology development.

Serving as a flight engineer on the ISS for Expeditions 59, 60 and 61, Koch and her crewmates contributed to hundreds of experiments in biology, Earth science, human research, physical science and technology development.

(28 March 2023)  NASA Astronaut Christina Hammock Koch will be making her second flight to space on the Artemis II mission, serving as a mission specialist. Koch served as flight engineer aboard the space station for Expedition 59, 60, and 61. Koch set a record for the longest single spaceflight by a woman with a total of 328 days in space and participated in the first all-female spacewalks.

(3 April 2023) NASA astronauts Reid Wiseman, Victor Glover, and Christina Hammock Koch, and CSA astronaut Jeremy Hansen were announced Monday, April 3 as the four astronauts who will venture around the Moon on Artemis II, the first crewed mission on NASA’s path to establishing a long-term presence at the Moon for science and exploration through Artemis. The crew assignments are as follows: Commander Reid Wiseman, Pilot Victor Glover, Mission Specialist 1 Christina Koch, Mission Specialist 2 Jeremy Hansen. (Credit: NASA/Josh Valcarcel)

(18 September 2019) NASA astronauts Christina Koch and Andrew Morgan stow biological research samples into a science freezer located inside the U.S. Destiny laboratory module.

(29 March 2019) Spacewalker and NASA astronaut Christina Koch retrieves hardware from a pallet delivered on the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency’s (JAXA) HTV-7 (H-II Transfer Vehicle-7) to continue upgrading the International Space Station’s power storage capacity. She and fellow spacewalker Nick Hague (out of frame) worked outside in the vacuum of space for six hours and 45 minutes to continue swapping batteries and install adapter plates on the station’s Port-4 truss structure.

(11 August 2019) Expedition 60 Flight Engineer Christina Koch of NASA looks through the station’s “window to the world,” the seven-windowed cupola. Koch was photographing landmarks as the orbiting lab flew 259 miles above the Pacific Ocean off the coast of South America.

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NASA astronaut Christina Koch takes an out-of-this-world "space-selfie" with the Earth behind her.

(18 October 2019) NASA astronaut Christina Koch takes an out-of-this-world “space-selfie” with the Earth behind her. She and fellow NASA astronaut Jessica Meir (out of frame) ventured into the vacuum of space for seven hours and 17 minutes to swap a failed battery charge-discharge unit (BCDU) with a spare during the first all-woman spacewalk. The BCDU regulates the charge to the batteries that collect and distribute solar power to the orbiting lab’s systems.

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