{"id":45972,"date":"2020-02-10T17:20:53","date_gmt":"2020-02-10T22:20:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/?p=45972"},"modified":"2020-02-10T17:21:06","modified_gmt":"2020-02-10T22:21:06","slug":"record-setting-astronaut-returns-to-earth","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/2020\/02\/record-setting-astronaut-returns-to-earth\/","title":{"rendered":"Record-Setting Astronaut Returns to Earth"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Astronaut\u00a0<a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"http:\/\/r20.rs6.net\/tn.jsp?f=001-jzh6QaDtl6LtKZy8fjE5QYuYLGQZ2MYUF-Am2BLHkx8PrWhlhUIbg6LKCu_v_yWk7pgGa4VwHKRDrTCI99WE0Vt0ErzYNMng2R34m7nutae1M6McABzJgxGnO74TkGptz8gYMzdP1zvM_l-UAzz-m5GgBIymOsQlzej_6aobkj_BrDXNHJwX4Lk79fVVrctMS4XgC25UZ0=&amp;c=6dj4dHnhlY5bBhhNDntQVrpCUnARz_Q7j-3HX6GGrkYDz7AZ7cDy9g==&amp;ch=SmzC_oRd090w9u4fqHCsExq9HaoAlgVCUyfv18z0mJgq0k4VOlqpRg==\" target=\"_blank\">Christina Koch<\/a>\u00a0returned to Earth on Thursday, Feb. 6, after 328 days living and working aboard the International Space Station. She now holds the record for the longest single spaceflight by any woman.\u00a0<br>During her historic mission, Koch completed 5,248 orbits of Earth and a journey of 139 million miles, roughly the equivalent of 291 trips to the Moon and back. She took part in a number of long-duration spaceflight studies, helping advance our goals of returning humans to the Moon under the\u00a0<a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"http:\/\/r20.rs6.net\/tn.jsp?f=001-jzh6QaDtl6LtKZy8fjE5QYuYLGQZ2MYUF-Am2BLHkx8PrWhlhUIbhJElUpJnK--0FdZ3cHE1Pkb0AngjJEkxo_wW1smuebaLxVRv9TQERFYXWzh61kEUFsrv7CQWMYMwI5Jy0l81IORAdiZq-De1AkOQHoDyi4YoMi2MD1PCd0=&amp;c=6dj4dHnhlY5bBhhNDntQVrpCUnARz_Q7j-3HX6GGrkYDz7AZ7cDy9g==&amp;ch=SmzC_oRd090w9u4fqHCsExq9HaoAlgVCUyfv18z0mJgq0k4VOlqpRg==\" target=\"_blank\">Artemis<\/a>\u00a0program and preparing for human exploration of\u00a0<a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"http:\/\/r20.rs6.net\/tn.jsp?f=001-jzh6QaDtl6LtKZy8fjE5QYuYLGQZ2MYUF-Am2BLHkx8PrWhlhUIbnidaBkCgE7dg3VN0cDBYvkP5P2D43yFlYa7Kt771c5TgRSqKXJaKARcDyksEs5stiI4jukt2JQy5dp1zKtgllLAmS8uzzR-788Tq75j8nQodiIs6JwnDqk=&amp;c=6dj4dHnhlY5bBhhNDntQVrpCUnARz_Q7j-3HX6GGrkYDz7AZ7cDy9g==&amp;ch=SmzC_oRd090w9u4fqHCsExq9HaoAlgVCUyfv18z0mJgq0k4VOlqpRg==\" target=\"_blank\">Mars<\/a>.\u00a0\u00a0This isn\u2019t the first time this inspirational astronaut has made history. Koch took part in the first\u00a0<a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"http:\/\/r20.rs6.net\/tn.jsp?f=001-jzh6QaDtl6LtKZy8fjE5QYuYLGQZ2MYUF-Am2BLHkx8PrWhlhUIbmyHa2xNyq8Ay5DKpApD7FsQgQSdajnEsqlKV3pltiTN9gLX2ke3wecBSIOMJ76CNUO0j_MpB-GUGyLOjgNurxXou7ECfNQ9wP92_j-Ic1ib5hDAeEX6izml3K7ir6-6QA==&amp;c=6dj4dHnhlY5bBhhNDntQVrpCUnARz_Q7j-3HX6GGrkYDz7AZ7cDy9g==&amp;ch=SmzC_oRd090w9u4fqHCsExq9HaoAlgVCUyfv18z0mJgq0k4VOlqpRg==\" target=\"_blank\">all-woman spacewalk<\/a>\u00a0alongside astronaut Jessica Meir.\u00a0 <\/p>\n\n\n\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/O1prO1uzcSQ\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Astronaut\u00a0Christina Koch\u00a0returned to Earth on Thursday, Feb. 6, after 328 days living and working aboard the International Space Station. She now holds the record for the longest single spaceflight by&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":45973,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[128],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45972"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=45972"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45972\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/45973"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=45972"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=45972"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=45972"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}