NASA Astronaut Christina Koch Is Back After A Year In Space
CHRISTINA KOCH – NASA astronaut Christina Koch lands back on Earth after her record-setting space mission.
Traveling and working to space undoubtedly involves facing lots of dangerous elements. The astronauts could develop health problems, psychologically damaged, and felled by radiation.
Space agencies make sure that they minimize or eliminate these risks. Astronauts stay inside a small space station for months so they have to get used to a strange environment and extreme isolation.
Based on a report from GMA News, National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) astronaut Christina Koch returned to Earth after a record-breaking mission. She’s the one who led the 2019 all-female spacewalk.
The North Carolina-born engineer landed in Kazakhstan on Thursday, February 6 after her 328-day mission on the International Space Station. She is expected to submit a new understanding of deep-space travel and provide researchers important data on how space radiation affects the female body and their weightlessness.
According to the report, Christina Koch joined NASA in 2013. She has set the record for the longest space mission by a woman. NASA’s former deputy administrator Lori Garver said: “women acclimate well to space, so I think this is a milestone that will be overtaken by women in the future and it’s what we aspire to.”
The Russian Soyuz MS-13 space capsule landed on the snowy Kazakh Steppe carrying Christina, Russian cosmonaut Alexander Skvortsov, and European astronaut Luca Parmitano of Italy.
“I’m just so overwhelmed and happy right now,” said Christina.
Based on the report, Christina Koch and her fellow NASA astronaut Jessica Meir achieved a gender milestone in spacewalk mission. America’s space agency aims to build a permanent space station on the moon that’s why they are studying the impact of long-term spaceflights.
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