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US astronaut Christina Koch

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US astronaut Christina Koch set the record for the longest single spaceflight by a woman when she reached, and crossed, 289 days in her current mission at the International Space Station (ISS).
Having reached the ISS in March this year, she is expected to spend a total of 328 days on board before returning to Earth in February 2020.
In October 2019, she was part of the first all-female spacewalk, together with Jessica Meir

Did you Know?

Gennady Padalka of Russia holds the record longest cumulative time spent in space by any astronaut, male or female, accumulating the 878 days (about 2½ years) across five spaceflights between 1998 and 2015.
The International Space Station (ISS) is a space station (habitable artificial satellite) in low Earth orbit.
The ISS programme is a joint project between five participating space agencies: NASA (United States), Roscosmos (Russia), JAXA (Japan), ESA (Europe), and CSA (Canada). The ownership and use of the space station is established by intergovernmental treaties and agreements

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