Christina Koch, an astronaut, will be the first woman to reach the Moon.
The names of four astronauts, who will be the first humans to return to the Moon in more than 50 years, have been released by NASA. Christina Koch, one of the four, will be the first woman to circumnavigate the Moon.
Ankush Pandey
Space explorer Christina Lounger Koch will turn into the principal lady to circumvent the moon since humankind started investigating the lunar world. Koch will be the mission specialist when four humans board the Orion spacecraft for a trip around the Moon, according to the US space agency Nasa.
Only male astronauts have so far visited the lunar surface and orbit. The new mission marks the first time a woman astronaut has set foot in the lunar sphere. NASA said that Koch and the astronauts Jeremy Hansen, Victor Glover, and Reid Wiseman will go around the moon for 10 days.
"To be here is an honor. The mission itself is incredible to me when I consider it. After her name was announced, Koch stated, "We are going to ride the world's most powerful rocket, we will reach peaks of thousands of miles, we will test all the systems, and then we will head to the moon." She added that they will accompany us on this mission to the moon with the excitement, hopes, and dreams of the world.
The 10-day Artemis-II mission, which will bring humanity one step closer to landing on the moon for the first time since the Apollo missions, officially gets underway with this announcement. Eugene Cernan, commander of Apollo 17, was the last human to walk on the Moon in 1972. He left footprints on Earth's natural satellite.
Who is astronaut Christina Koch?
Christina Hammock Koch joined Nasa in 2013 and worked as a flight engineer on Expeditions 59, 60, and 61 of the International Space Station (ISS). Koch was born in Grand Rapids, Michigan, and she went to North Carolina State University in Raleigh, North Carolina, where she got a Master of Science in Electrical Engineering and a Bachelor of Science in Electrical Engineering and Physics.
Before turning into a space explorer, Koch traversed both space science instrument advancement and far off logical field designing. At NASA Goddard Space Flight Center (GSFC), where she worked as an electrical engineer, she made contributions to the scientific instruments used on a number of NASA space science missions.
On the Soyuz MS-12 spacecraft, she was launched into space for the first time in 2019 from the Baikonur Cosmodrome. Nasa says that Koch and her coworkers contributed to hundreds of experiments in biology, earth science, human research, physical science, and technology development while Koch was a Flight Engineer on the ISS for Expeditions 59, 60, and 61.
A total of 42 hours and 15 minutes had passed since Koch's first three all-female spacewalks. She has been in space for 328 days all together.
Artemis II will be the first crewed flight of an Apollo successor program that aims to return astronauts to the moon's surface this decade and establish a sustainable outpost there, laying the groundwork for human exploration of Mars. However, it will not be the first lunar landing.
The Artemis II mission, which will take 10 days and cover 2.3 million kilometers to circle the moon and return, aims to demonstrate that all of Orion's life support and other systems will function as intended when astronauts are aboard in deep space.
