{"id":17841,"date":"2019-12-29T22:46:08","date_gmt":"2019-12-29T14:46:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wp-productionenv-bjg9h2g2bgg5b8aa.southeastasia-01.azurewebsites.net\/news\/nasas-christina-koch-adds-onto-the-world-endurance-record-for-women-in-space\/"},"modified":"2019-12-29T22:46:08","modified_gmt":"2019-12-29T14:46:08","slug":"nasas-christina-koch-adds-onto-the-world-endurance-record-for-women-in-space","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/news\/nasas-christina-koch-adds-onto-the-world-endurance-record-for-women-in-space\/","title":{"rendered":"NASA\u2019s Christina Koch adds onto the world endurance record for women in space"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_539737\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-539737\" style=\"width: 630px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full-width wp-image-539737\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn.geekwire.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/191229-koch-630x420.jpg\" alt=\"Christina Koch on space station\" width=\"630\" height=\"420\" srcset=\"https:\/\/cdn.geekwire.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/191229-koch-630x420.jpg 630w, https:\/\/cdn.geekwire.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/191229-koch-1260x840.jpg 1260w, https:\/\/cdn.geekwire.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/191229-koch-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/cdn.geekwire.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/191229-koch-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/cdn.geekwire.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/191229-koch-2048x1366.jpg 2048w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 630px) 100vw, 630px\"><figcaption data-nosnippet=\"\" id=\"caption-attachment-539737\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">NASA astronaut Christina Koch has been aboard the International Space Station since March. (NASA Photo)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Every day for the next six weeks, NASA astronaut Christina Koch will be setting a new women\u2019s record for continuous time in space.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Koch\u2019s extended stint on the International Space Station follows up on astronaut Scott Kelly\u2019s \u201cYear in Space\u201d mission in 2015-2016, and is similarly aimed at studying the health effects of long-duration spaceflight. She arrived in March, and marked her 288th day in orbit on Saturday. That officially surpassed the women\u2019s record set by Peggy Whitson in 2017.<\/li>\n<li>Koch is also in the space history books for being part of the world\u2019s first all-woman spacewalking team in October, along with Jessica Meir. When her mission extension was announced, back in April, Koch said she sought advice from Whitson \u2014 and was told to \u201cfind what you love, and make sure you have it up there.\u201d (Maybe that\u2019s a reference to space cookies for Christmas?)<\/li>\n<li>By the time Koch makes her scheduled return to Earth in February, her record will have been extended to 328 days. That\u2019s less than two weeks shy of Kelly\u2019s 340-day stay, which stands as the U.S. single-flight endurance record. For what it\u2019s worth, Soviet cosmonaut Valery Polyakov set the world record in 1995 with nearly 438 full days.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NASA astronaut Christina Koch has been aboard the International Space Station since March. (NASA Photo) Every day for the next six weeks, NASA astronaut Christina Koch will be setting a new women\u2019s record for continuous time in space. Koch\u2019s extended stint on the International Space Station follows up on astronaut Scott Kelly\u2019s \u201cYear in Space\u201d [&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":[717,190,4894],"class_list":["post-17841","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-international-space-station","tag-nasa","tag-women"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17841"}],"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=17841"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17841\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17841"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17841"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17841"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}