Astronaut Christina Koch will establish a new record for the longest single spaceflight by a woman, NASA says. - NBCNewsMACH
Expedition 50 Flight Engineer Peggy Whitson is suited up in the U.S. Quest airlock getting ready for her record-breaking eighth spacewalk on March 30 , 2017.. Koch had been scheduled to venture outside the space station with fellow astronaut Anne McClain on March 29, but the space agency changed the spacewalk assignments because only a single medium-size spacesuit was available.
Koch wound up doing the spacewalk with astronaut Nick Hague. McClain's spacewalk was rescheduled for a later date.learn more about the effects of long-duration spaceflight on the human body"NASA is looking to build on what we have learned with additional astronauts in space for more than 250 days," Jennifer Fogarty, chief scientist of the Human Research Program at NASA's Johnson Space Center in Houston, said in a written statement.
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