NASA astronaut Christina Koch will spend 11 months in outer space after her spaceflight was initially planned to be a six months mission.
File: NASA astronaut Christina Hammock Koch, a member of the International Space Station Expedition 59/60.WASHINGTON - NASA astronaut Christina Koch is going to have her mission on the International Space Station extended to nearly 11 months, which would set a record for the longest spaceflight by a woman, the US space agency said on Wednesday.
"It feels awesome," Koch said when told her mission was being prolonged."I have known that this was a possibility for a long time and it's truly a dream come true." The record for an extended spaceflight by an American is held by US astronaut Scott Kelly, who spent 340 days aboard the ISS in 2015-16 with Russian Mikhail Kornienko.
The current team aboard the ISS is made up of three Americans -- Koch, Anne McClain and Nick Hague -- two Russians -- Oleg Kononenko and Alexey Ovchinin -- and a Canadian, David Saint-Jacques.
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