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Christina Koch
American astronaut
browse: astronauts, engineers
alive
- born
- 1979
- died
- no date on record
- age
- 47
- known for
- astronaut, engineer
born 1979

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who christina koch is
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 only woman to travel beyond low Earth orbit and around the Moon.
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wikidata has no date of death on file for Christina Koch, and they’d be 47 today — so as far as the record goes, still here. your browser re-checks this against wikidata on every visit, so it’s current even if the page itself was cached a while ago.
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