Christina Koch
Also known as Christina Hammock-Koch, Christina Hammock, Christina H Koch, Christina Hammock Koch
Christina Hammock Koch is an American engineer and NASA astronaut. On her mission to the International Space Station in 2019–20 she was part of the first all‑female spacewalk and set the record for the longest spaceflight by a woman. On the Artemis II lunar flyby mission in April 2026, which set the record for human distance from Earth, Koch became the first woman to travel beyond low Earth orbit and to travel around the Moon.
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Christina Koch is an American engineer and NASA astronaut who made history through several groundbreaking spaceflight achievements, including performing the first all-female spacewalk and setting the record for the longest spaceflight by a woman during her 2019–20 mission to the International Space Station. She further cemented her place in space exploration history by becoming the first woman to travel beyond low Earth orbit and around the Moon during the Artemis II mission in April 2026, which set the record for human distance from Earth.
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Koch took the photograph Earthset during the 2026 Artemis II mission Christina Hammock Koch (/kʊk/ KUUK; née Hammock; born January 29, 1979) is an American engineer and NASA astronaut. On her mission to the International Space Station in 2019–20 she was part of the first all‑female spacewalk and set the record for the longest spaceflight by a woman. On the Artemis II lunar flyby mission in April 2026, which set the record for human distance from Earth, Koch became the first woman to travel beyond low Earth orbit and to travel around the Moon.
Before joining the NASA Astronaut Corps, Koch worked at the Goddard Space Flight Center and served as station chief for the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration's American Samoa Observatory.