It was in 1969 that Neil Armstrong hoisted the Stars and Stripes on lunar soil, making history as the first man to land on the moon. 54 years after the historic July 20, in 2024, will come Christina Koch became the first female astronaut to fly to the moon as part of the Artemis 2 mission.. The special record is shared by Victor Glover, who holds another record as the first black astronaut to go to satellite later next year, along with Reed Wiseman and Jeremy Hansen for a lightning mission lasting about 10 days. The team will not land on the moon properly, but will pave the way for the next crew to land.
“The crew of Artemis 2 is made up of thousands of people who work tirelessly to take us to the stars. This is their crew, this is our crew, this is the team of mankind”said NASA Administrator Bill Nelson, who, in line with the Creed Out of many, one, delivered on its promise to bring more diversity to the teams. In fact, all previous missions to the moon so far have been by white men, and this time there will be a black man and woman. Naturally, competency is always the primary selection criterion—going into space requires years of technical and physical preparation—but opening up a team to new talent, regardless of color or gender, is a great message of inclusion, which is good for you. also to science.
Born in Michigan in 1979 Christina Koch majored in electrical engineering and physics and received her master’s degree in electrical engineering in 2002.. After her studies, she worked at the GSFC High Energy Astrophysics Laboratory and was a professor at Montgomery College where she taught in the physics laboratory. Between 2004 and 2007 she was a researcher in the United States Antarctic Program and also completed the winter season at Base Amundsen-Scott and the season at Base Palmer. From 2007 to 2009, he continued to work on instrument development for space research at the Applied Physics Laboratory at Johns Hopkins University, contributing to the radiation instruments for the Juno and Van Allen Probes missions. Since 2010, Koch has returned to fieldwork during missions at Palmer Base and during several winter seasons at Summit Base in Greenland. In 2012, he worked for NOAA as a field engineer at the World Climate Monitoring Division in Alaska and later as Station Chief of the American Samoa Observatory on the volcanic island of Tutuila in the South Pacific.
In 2013, Koch was selected by NASA to join the Group of 21 astronauts. So he began training as a candidate to be able to travel into space. In 2015, she officially became an astronaut, her first mission dates back to March 14, 2019, and on October 18, together with Jessica Meir, she made the first all-female space flight. On December 28 of the same year, she set a record for women in space, equal to 328 days. After her American Peggy Whitson and in third place Samantha Christofretti. Three outstanding women who write the history of gender equality even 343,400 km from Earth.
Source: Elle