06 February 2020
Record-setting astronaut Christina Koch and crewmates return from ISS
...spaceflight in history by a woman, NASA astronaut Christina Koch returned to Earth Thursday, along with Soyuz Commander... staging city in Karaganda, Kazakhstan, aboard Russian helicopters. Koch and Parmitano will board a NASA plane bound for Cologne...
18 October 2019
First all-female spacewalk is underway!
Two NASA astronauts, Christina Koch and Jessica Meir, have embarked on the first all-female space walk in an historic...and can be seen via NASA Television and the agency’s website. NASA astronauts Christina H Koch (left) and Jessica Meir. Image: NASA
27 March 2019
NASA to land humans on the Moon again by 2024 - but with better fitting spacesuits hopefully
... statement, seemingly erased years of the struggles women have strived to overcome in order to be treated as equals. NASA astronaut Christina Koch who had been scheduled to install powerful lithium-ion batteries for one pair of the station’s solar...
May 2020
Mixed reality in the design of space habitats
... to learn how to operate his spacesuit’s SAFER emergency pack. Likewise, NASA astronaut and Expedition 59 flight engineer Christina Koch (Figure 3) used a virtual reality headset for the recent ‘Vection’ study onboard the ISS to explore perception...
02 April 2026
NASA astronauts launch on lunar flyby mission
... successful launch marked the beginning of an approximately 10-day mission for NASA astronauts Reid Wiseman, Victor Glover, Christina Koch, and CSA (Canadian Space Agency) astronaut Jeremy Hansen. As the first crewed mission of NASA’s Artemis...
June 2021
The coolest experiment on the ISS
...the laboratory was upgraded to include an interferometer which significantly increases the Cold Atom Lab’s abilities. Astronauts Christina Koch and Jessica Meir removed the old Science Module and upgraded it by connecting 11 fibre optic cables to the...
