Central Carolina Technical College issued the following announcement on March 1.
Christina Koch
To honor Women’s History Month, our figure of the week this week is Christina Hammock Koch. A NASA astronaut since 2013, Koch has set a record for the longest single spaceflight by a woman with a total of 328 days in space! Her career began as an electrical engineer at the NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, where she contributed to several NASA space science missions. Her career transitions within NASA have taken her as far as Palmer Station in Antarctica and multiple winter seasons at Summit Station in Greenland, along with her year in space.
Koch has conducted six spacewalks, including the first three all-women spacewalks, totaling 42 hours and 15 minutes.
To Koch, it was not just about making history, but giving back to the world. “I never thought that there would be a historical aspect attached to [the longest spaceflight], but the chance to give back, the chance to inspire the future and reflecting on how lucky I was to be there in that moment at that time was the primary thing that was going through my mind,” Koch commented about her experience.
The next mission for Koch’s career is the Artemis program. She is one of 18 astronauts in the program, which plans to land the first women and next man on the moon by 2024.
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