Artemis II astronauts launch on historic mission to moon
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It has taken more than 50 years of spaceflight to send a woman to the Moon, but the health effects of deep space may exact a greater toll on Christina Koch than her male counterparts.
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Women outnumber men in NASA's newest astronaut class. And this week, the first woman will orbit the moon
Christina Koch will be the first woman to fly around the moon in the Artemis II launch.
Christina Koch, a NASA astronaut since 2013, is making history with Artemis II as the first female to travel around the moon aboard the Orion spacecraft.
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Pioneering woman astronaut reflects on Christina Koch, first woman set to go to the moon
Going to the moon isn't new for NASA: of the 24 that flew there during the Apollo missions, all astronauts were men. On Artemis II, Christina Koch is set to be the first woman.
Christina Koch is part of NASA’s historic Artemis II crew. Learn more about the astronaut set to orbit the Moon and her career.
NASA astronaut friends Christina Koch and Jessica Meir, who performed the first all-female spacewalk, are breaking records again.
She’s a molecular biologist who is about to become the first female astronaut in Spain’s history. But before she can take off, she has to complete ESA’s Astronaut Reserve training in Cologne.
The Artemis II mission crew contains four people -- including one woman and one Black man, both of whom will be the first on a lunar mission. But NASA hasn't been talking about these milestones much.
Just a few days in simulated microgravity can subtly change the way women's blood clots, sparking bigger questions about health monitoring protocols for astronauts who can spend six months or more in orbit, say Simon Fraser University researchers.
SEATTLE — She's a doctor of Americans students and the emerita curator in the Department of Space History at the Smithsonian's National Air and Space Museum. Now, Valerie Neal has added a third book to her collected books: 'On a Mission' tracks the long ...
First reported in 2020, an International Space Station mission detected an unexpected blood clot in a female astronaut's jugular vein. To date, space-health research has had more male participants but with the number of female astronauts on the rise, a new SFU–European Space Agency study examined how microgravity affects blood clotting specifically in women.
The first day of the Artemis II mission saw the crew enter Earth orbit and prepare for their journey around the moon