Christina Koch returns to Earth after breaking the record for the longest time spent in space
The American Astronaut Christina Koch He returned to planet Earth on February 6, after spending 328 consecutive days in space, ending a mission that began on March 14, 2019.
Christina Koch's Coming Home
Astronaut Koch has become the woman who has remained outside the Earth's atmosphere the longest during a single mission, having spent almost a year aboard the International Space Station (ISS), surpassing Peggy Whitson, who had completed 289 days. These figures make Koch the fifth person and the second American to have been on the same space travel the longest.
Koch arrived in space in the Soyuz capsule, with his companions the Russian cosmonaut A. Skvortsov and the Italian astronaut L. Parmitano, landed in the steppes of Kazakhstan, in Central Asia, at 09 GMT, after a flight of 12 and a half hours. . During the mission, Koch conducted several experiments, including studying the effects of microgravity on Mizuna mustard greens, combustion, bioprinting, and kidney disease. In addition, Koch herself was the subject of research to determine the long-term effects of space flight on the human body.
Christina breaks another record
It is not the first record that Koch breaks, since last year in October they carried out with his partner Jessica Meir the first spacewalk of 1 team only for women, and that lasted more than 7 hours. Now Christina Koch has managed to be 328 days in space
Likewise, Christina Koch's own body will be studied by science to explore the consequences of long-term missions in the cosmo on women's bodies. Indeed, Koch has spent only 30 fewer days in space than Scott Kelly, the American astronaut who has spent the most time on a single mission and who collaborated on the renowned twin study to investigate the effects of space on human anatomy.