{"id":17807,"date":"2020-02-06T19:46:16","date_gmt":"2020-02-06T11:46:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wp-productionenv-bjg9h2g2bgg5b8aa.southeastasia-01.azurewebsites.net\/news\/nasa-astronaut-christina-koch-is-all-smiles-after-setting-womens-record-with-328-day-spaceflight\/"},"modified":"2020-02-06T19:46:16","modified_gmt":"2020-02-06T11:46:16","slug":"nasa-astronaut-christina-koch-is-all-smiles-after-setting-womens-record-with-328-day-spaceflight","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/news\/nasa-astronaut-christina-koch-is-all-smiles-after-setting-womens-record-with-328-day-spaceflight\/","title":{"rendered":"NASA astronaut Christina Koch is all smiles after setting women\u2019s record with 328-day spaceflight"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe title=\"Christina Koch Returns To Earth\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/K9ctQAdw-DA?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen=\"\" data-ratio=\"0.5625\" data-width=\"800\" data-height=\"450\" style=\"display: block; margin: 0px; width: 800px; height: 450px;\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>NASA astronaut Christina Koch struck a joyful note today after finishing up 328 days in space aboard the International Space Station, a stay that has gone into the history books as the longest spaceflight made by a woman.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Koch and two crewmates, Russia\u2019s Alexander Skvortsov and Italy\u2019s Luca Parmitano, landed in the steppes of Kazakhstan at 3:12 p.m. today local time (1:12 a.m. PT) after descending from the station in their Russian Soyuz spacecraft. In accordance with tradition for returning long-term spacefliers, the three were carried from the craft for an initial round of medical checks.<\/li>\n<li>\u201cI\u2019m just so overwhelmed and happy right now,\u201d Koch said after getting settled. Her stint on the station, which began last March, featured the first spacewalk by an all-woman team in October.<\/li>\n<li>Like NASA astronaut Scott Kelly\u2019s 340-day space stay in 2015-2016, Koch\u2019s mission was meant to provide data about the effects of long-term space trips, in preparation for future extended missions to the moon and Mars. One of the studies, for example, focused on vertebral strength and potential injury risks. NASA is planning more long-term research missions, so there\u2019s a good chance Koch\u2019s record will be broken sooner rather than later.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NASA astronaut Christina Koch struck a joyful note today after finishing up 328 days in space aboard the International Space Station, a stay that has gone into the history books as the longest spaceflight made by a woman. Koch and two crewmates, Russia\u2019s Alexander Skvortsov and Italy\u2019s Luca Parmitano, landed in the steppes of Kazakhstan [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[717,190,4453],"class_list":["post-17807","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-international-space-station","tag-nasa","tag-women-in-stem"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17807"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17807"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17807\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17807"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17807"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17807"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}