Christina Koch

Christina Koch is an explorer and engineer who became astronaut in 2013. She is currently training for NASA’s Artemis II mission, planned to go around the moon next year. Her previous experience in spaceflight was living and working on the International Space Station for almost all of 2019 in Expeditions 59, 60, and 61.  For this mission, she flew on the Russian Soyuz rocket and trained extensively in Russia.  Christina set a record for the longest single spaceflight by a woman with a total of 328 days in space and participated in the first all-female spacewalks. After this spaceflight and before being assigned to Artemis II, she served as Branch Chief of the Assigned Crew Branch in the Astronaut Office and did a rotation as Assistant for Technical Integration for the Center Director at NASA’s Johnson Space Center. Prior to becoming an astronaut, Christina’s experience spanned both space science mission instrument development and remote scientific field engineering in the Antarctic and Arctic. Her hobbies include surfing, rock and ice climbing, programming, community service, triathalons, yoga, backpacking, woodworking, photography and travel.