Christina Koch

Christina Koch is one of those people who makes you reconsider what a human being is actually capable of. She spent nearly a year aboard the International Space Station in 2019–2020, setting the record for the longest spaceflight by a woman, and before that she earned an Antarctica Service Medal — meaning she has literally lived at both the most extreme edges of Earth and beyond it. The all-female spacewalk she did alongside Jessica Meir in 2019 was a genuine historical moment, not a PR stunt, and you could feel it. She's an engineer first, which I think explains everything: no hype, just methodical excellence. Growing up in Michigan, going to NC State, then NASA — it sounds straightforward until you realize almost nobody actually pulls it off. I find her quietly inspiring in the best way.

Name (English)

Christina Koch

Name (Japanese)

クリスティーナ・コック

Reading

くりすてぃーな・こっく

Born

January 29, 1979 (age 47)

Zodiac / Chinese zodiac

Aquarius / Goat

Origin

Grand Rapids, Michigan, United States

Occupation

astronaut / engineer

University

North Carolina State University

Awards & achievements

• 2005 Antarctica Service Medal

Motto

Private

• Instagramhttps://www.instagram.com/astro_christina/
• Xhttps://x.com/Astro_Christina
• Wikipedia (Japanese)https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E3%82%AF%E3%83%AA%E3%82%B9%E3%83%86%E3%82%A3%E3%83%BC%E3%83%8A%E3%83%BB%E3%82%B3%E3%83%83%E3%82%AF%20(%E5%AE%87%E5%AE%99%E9%A3%9B%E8%A1%8C%E5%A3%AB)

Tags

• Michigan
• astronaut
• engineer

Last updated

2026-06-02

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