MEDIA ADVISORY M20-021
Media invited to Speak with Record-Breaking NASA Astronaut Christina Koch
NASA astronaut Christina Koch returned to
Earth on Thursday, Feb. 6, 2020 after logging 328 days in space --- the
longest spaceflight in history by a woman --- as a member of Expeditions
59-60-61 on the International Space Station.
Credits: NASA
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NASA astronaut Christina Koch will
participate in a postflight news conference at 3:30 p.m. EST Wednesday,
Feb. 12, from NASA’s Johnson Space Center in Houston. The 30-minute
news conference will air live on NASA Television and the agency’s website.
This will be Koch’s first news conference after returning to Earth from a 328-day mission aboard the International Space Station, the longest spaceflight ever for a woman.
To attend the briefing in person, U.S. media
must request credentials from the Johnson newsroom at 281-483-5111 no
later than noon Wednesday, Feb. 12. To ask questions by phone, media
must call the Johnson newsroom no later than 3:10 p.m. on Wednesday,
Feb. 12. Those following the briefing on social media may ask questions
using #AskNASA.
Koch launched in March 2019 with NASA astronaut Nick Hague and Russian cosmonaut Alexey Ovchinin. She landed
Feb. 6 with ESA (European Space Agency) astronaut Luca Parmitano and
cosmonaut Alexader Skvortskov. On her first flight into space, Koch
participated in experiments that will provide researchers the
opportunity to observe effects of long-duration spaceflight on a woman.
This will directly benefit the agency’s plans to land the first woman
and next man on the Moon under the Artemis program and prepare for human exploration of Mars.
Koch’s mission spanned 5,248 orbits of the Earth – a journey of 139 million miles -- roughly the equivalent of 291 round trips to the Moon. She conducted six spacewalks during her 11 months on orbit, including the first three all-woman spacewalks, spending 42 hours and 15 minutes outside the station. She also supported the arrivals and departures of more than a dozen Soyuz and cargo resupply spacecraft from the U.S., Japan, and Russia. Her mission was the second longest single spaceflight by a U.S. astronaut after retired astronaut Scott Kelly, placing her seventh on the list of American space travelers with the most time in space.
Koch’s mission spanned 5,248 orbits of the Earth – a journey of 139 million miles -- roughly the equivalent of 291 round trips to the Moon. She conducted six spacewalks during her 11 months on orbit, including the first three all-woman spacewalks, spending 42 hours and 15 minutes outside the station. She also supported the arrivals and departures of more than a dozen Soyuz and cargo resupply spacecraft from the U.S., Japan, and Russia. Her mission was the second longest single spaceflight by a U.S. astronaut after retired astronaut Scott Kelly, placing her seventh on the list of American space travelers with the most time in space.
For links to videos, b-roll, images, and additional information about her mission, visit:
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