NASA’s astronaut Christina Koch returned from the International Space Station to Earth safely on February 7, 2020. Koch arrived along with Soyuz Commander Alexander Skvortsov of Roscosmos and Luca Parmitano of European Space Agency.
About World Record
- She set the record for the longest single spaceflight in history by a woman .
- Koch launched on March 14, 2019 and has spent 328 days on International Space Station ISS, surpassing the previous record of 289 days held by fellow American Peggy Whitson.
- The world record across genders is 438 days by Valery Polyakov of Russia.
Koch achievements
- Koch completed 5,248 orbits of the Earth and a journey of 220 million km, the equivalent of almost 300 trips to the Moon and back.
- She conducted six spacewalks during 11 months on orbit, including the first three all-woman spacewalks (the historic first being with Jessica Meir), spending 42 hours and 15 minutes outside the station.
- She witnessed the arrival of a dozen visiting spacecraft and the departure of another dozen.
