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Christina Koch: Nasa astronaut sets new female space record
https://www.bbc.com/news/science-environment-51387464?intlink_from_url=https://www.bbc.com/news/world/us_and_canada&link_location=live-reporting-storyChristina Koch: Nasa astronaut sets new female space record
By Paul Rincon
Science editor, BBC News website
1 hour ago
Nasa astronaut Christina Koch has completed the longest-ever single spaceflight by a woman.
The Russian Soyuz spacecraft carrying Koch parachuted down to the grasslands of Kazakhstan at around 09:12 GMT.
She spent 328 days on the International Space Station (ISS), surpassing the previous record held by fellow American Peggy Whitson.
Her stay is just 12 days short of the all-time US record set by Scott Kelly, who was on the ISS from 2015-2016.
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Ms Koch surpassed the 289-day record set by fellow American Ms Whitson on 28 December last year. But her return to Earth sets the marker for future space travellers to beat.
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