NASA astronaut Christina Koch returns to earth after record-breaking space mission
Koch's medical data will be especially valuable to NASA scientists as the agency draws up plans for a long-duration manned mission to Mars.
Koch's medical data will be especially valuable to NASA scientists as the agency draws up plans for a long-duration manned mission to Mars.
Very appropriately has the significance of the spacewalk been summed up by Christina ~ "I think it’s important because of the historical nature of what we’re doing," she said ahead of the spacewalk.
The spacewalk was originally scheduled for 5-and-a-half hours, but the crews successfully completed their main task and the mission was extended to more than seven hours so the astronauts could perform some additional jobs.
