Current context: US astronaut Christina Koch is set to return to Earth on 6th February 2020.
a. Peggy Whitson
b. Christina Koch
c. Vladimir Dzhanibekov
d. Valeri Polyakov
- Christina Koch has shattered the spaceflight record for female astronauts by spending almost a year aboard the International Space Station (ISS).
- Koch has spent 328 days on ISS, surpassing the previous record held by fellow American Peggy Whitson.
- She is onboard the International Space Station since 14th March 2019.
- She will come back in a Russian Soyuz spacecraft, parachuting down to a landing on the steppes of Kazakhstan.
- Her stay is just 12 days short of the all-time US record set by Scott Kelly (Kelly was on the ISS from 2015-2016).
- Koch also surpassed the 289-day record set by fellow American Whitson on 28 December 2019.
Question:
Q.1 US astronaut ________________ is in news for completing the longest-ever single spaceflight by a woman in Space?a. Peggy Whitson
b. Christina Koch
c. Vladimir Dzhanibekov
d. Valeri Polyakov
