Christina Hammock Koch

Christina Hammock Koch was selected as a NASA astronaut in 2013. She served as a flight engineer on the International Space Station for Expedition 59, 60 and 61. Koch set a record for the longest single spaceflight by a woman with a total of 328 days in space and participated in the first all-female spacewalk. She is currently assigned as a Mission Specialist for NASA’s Artemis II mission, which will return humans to the vicinity of the Moon for the first time in over 50 years.

 Koch attended North Carolina State University in Raleigh, North Carolina, where she earned Bachelor of Science degrees in electrical engineering and physics and a Master of Science degree in electrical engineering and studied abroad at the University of Ghana. She later received an Honorary PhD from North Carolina State University.