American engineer Astro_Christina explains what it felt like to break the record for the longest space flight ever by a woman astronaut, and why space exploration is valuable for everyone.
around Earth. Not content with that, she and fellow astronaut Jessica Meir also took part in the first ever all-female spacewalk in October 2019, enshrining their names in the history books. “I don’t actually remember a time when I didn’t want to be an astronaut,” Koch, 41, tells, a month after returning to Earth. “[I’m in a] very privileged position of achieving this dream that I’ve had my whole life.”It’s certainly been a long journey for Koch to get to this point.
“Anne McClain made the call that she would prefer not to do that spacewalk in a suit that wasn't the right size for her very early on in my mission. I was happy that she felt empowered to make that decision and that no one at NASA second-guessed her or asked her to change her mind because of the previous announcement about it [being the first all-female spacewalk]. I thought that spoke volumes about where we [are] at.
“I consider myself lucky to have been able to contribute to further study of the human body’s adaptation to long-duration flight so that we can design the best possible future missions deeper into space.” the movie and the book, highlighted how much people were able to overcome. One thing I draw from it is that in this age where maybe the biases are more implicit — but are very much there — we still have to look for evidence of them and root them out.”“The big one is how adaptable the human body is to space flight. It is such a foreign environment; when you first get there, you feel like you’ve been born again.
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