328 days in orbit around the Earth. At 41, NASA astronaut Christina Koch broke the women's record for consecutive days in space. A record held since 2017 by her sister Peggy Whitson.
Back on Earth with cosmonauts Luca Parmitano and Alexandre Skvortsov, Christina Koch landed in the steppes of Kazakhstan, in Central Asia, after a return flight of about three and a half hours.
This American engineer is known to have participated in the first 100% female spacewalk carried out in October 2019 with Jessica Meir, a marine biologist. "When for the first time we were able to cross the airlock towards the outside of the station, says Chistina Koch in an interview given almost a month before her departure, our eyes met and we knew how that moment was special ”.
The astronaut recorded a message before leaving the International Space Station.
