Christina H KochVerified account

@Astro_Christina

NASA Astronaut recently back on Earth.

Houston, TX
Joined August 2015

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  1. How’s day 329?? I wouldn’t know! Congratulations to on an incredible, long-duration mission and continuing to push the boundaries! Yesterday was the day you flew past my time of 328 days and I couldn’t be more proud of and happy for you. See you home soon, friend!

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    Iteration 1 of the Astronaut Aviation Orientation Course is complete, and we look forward to training more at as they prepare to be - over the moon!

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  3. Huge thanks to the two Army instructor pilots who designed the flying course for our astronaut training mission and got me through! Your wise words will be a part of as we bring your experience to the engineers and designers of vertical landers on the moon!

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  4. They wait for night. That’s when the real work starts for experienced Army helicopter pilots. Watching the crew coordination taught me about trust, expertise, honesty, and being in the zone on a mission. Exactly why we came here. Thanks for the flight and the insight!

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  5. Met our aircraft today. Path finding a new helicopter training program for the generation. Taking the lessons from in vertical flight and landings and bringing them back to the Moon!

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  6. The word Immunity has gotten a lot of play this year, but NASA has been studying human immunity using the spaceflight environment on the for even longer. Learning about ourselves off the Earth and bringing benefits back!

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  7. Caught the flying over, still lit by the sun after it set over my home beach town. Lots going on inside what looks to us like a star. And no it doesn’t blink as it appears, I took photo exposures every 2s and it was moving fast! That’s 17,500 mph at 250 miles up.

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  8. Happy New. A sunrise from in June 2019.

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    Christmas 2019 on the : an international celebration with an international crew! We exchanged gifts in stockings and shared seasonal foods packaged for space from the US, Italy and Russia… even included smoked salmon!

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  10. Glad the predawn fog lifted for today’s training flight with . We flew to the biggest airport in Houston to hone skills in a fast jet in busy airspace, by way of coastal Texas.

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  11. Love this to L2 and back! Best Christmas present ever.

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  12. Science for Christmas! A new cargo ship packed full of experiments docked to today. The kind of things we can only learn in space, to benefit life on Earth. All the details at

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  13. It seemed so real. Augmented Reality microgravity simulation of the future living quarters of the . Worked with this incredible team to talk best ways to work on the ceiling, live in a moon-orbiting tiny home, and even fit in some exercise and science.

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  14. Absolutely can’t wait to see this launch and start its bold and important mission!

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  15. Anatomy of a spacewalk development run: learn, suit-up, execute, celebrate! All with the team. Congratulations, Alan on 5,000 hours under the water in our simulator of the exterior!

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  16. I had always wished we had been together up there! Instead, found me and hanging around, together on an outreach mission on Earth. Lucky to have flown with these two astro sisters, even if not at the same time.

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  17. Welcome! So glad to have you all on the team.

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  18. Watched some great spacewalk teamwork this past week to replace a degraded communications antenna on . Keeping the ship strong! Photographer and onboard suit-up teammate not in these pics:

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  19. Two years ago, I was feeling thankful for plentiful airlock times. We were halfway through a series of intricate spacewalks to fix an amazing telescope on called AMS and I got to be the main suiter-upper for my friends and .

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  20. This picture is forever changed. Congratulations to our Russian colleagues on a successful docking of a new node on the ! Great to see the station still alive and growing and to serve as Capcom in mission control on the last shift before this new arrival.

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