ScienceBorn January 29, 1979

Christina Koch

American astronaut, first woman to circle the Moon

Born
January 29, 1979 (age 47)
Known as
astronaut, engineer

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 to travel around the Moon.

Biography from Wikipedia, available under CC BY-SA 4.0.

Christina Koch in our timeline

Also born on January 29

Also born in 1979