NASA Astronaut Christina Koch Breaks Record for Longest Female Spaceflight

Expedition 61 Flight Engineer and NASA astronaut Christina Koch handles media bags that enable the manufacturing of organ-like tissues using the BioFabrication Facility (BFF), a 3-D biological printer. The BFF could become a part of a larger system capable of manufacturing whole, fully-functioning human organs from existing patient cells in microgravity, in this photo taken on Dec. 22, 2019 as part of her record setting mission for longest female spaceflight.  Credit: NASA

29 December 2019

Ken Kremer - For Spaceupclose.com and RocketSTEM

Cape Canaveral, FL –  NASA astronaut Christina Koch has broken the record for the longest single spaceflight by a female spaceflyer this past week on Saturday Dec. 28 when she broke the record of 289 continuous days in space while living and working aboard the International Space Station (ISS) during the Christmas and New Year’s holiday season. 

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