Christina Koch

Christina Koch was selected as a NASA astronaut in 2013. Serving as a Flight Engineer on the ISS for Expeditions 59, 60 and 61, she and her crewmates contributed to hundreds of experiments in many kinds of science and technology development. Some of the scientific highlights from her missions include doing robotics for upgrades to the Alpha Magnetic Spectrometer, growing protein crystals for pharmaceutical research, and testing 3D biological printers in microgravity. Koch set a record for the longest single spaceflight by a woman with a total of 328 days in space and participated in the first three all-female spacewalks, totalling 42 hours and 15 minutes. She has been assigned as Mission Specialist I of NASA’s Artemis II mission.