Becoming the First Woman to Travel Around the Moon with Christina Koch

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🗓️ 5 March 2024

⏱️ 31 minutes

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What if you had an opportunity to travel around the moon? Christina Koch has worked at NASA for the last 10 years, and has been a part of groundbreaking missions in outer space. In 2019, Christina embarked on a 328-day stay on the International Space Station, setting a record for the longest single space flight by a woman. Now Christina has a new assignment on the horizon. She was selected to join a crew that will travel around the moon.

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0:00.0	I love all the beautiful scenery Earth has to offer, the rolling tides, the lush forest, even the dusty deserts.
0:11.0	But imagine zooming out and seeing all of that at once.
0:15.0	That's what astronaut and engineer Christina Cook gets to do.
0:19.0	For the last 10 years, Christina has worked at NASA,
0:22.0	and she's been part of some groundbreaking missions in outer space.
0:24.8	In 2019 Christina left for a 328 day stay on the International Space Station
0:31.2	setting a record for the longest single spaceflight by a woman.
0:36.0	Now Christina has a new assignment on the horizon.
0:39.1	She was selected to join a crew that will travel around the moon. I'm Shelby Stanger and this is wild ideas
0:46.0	worth living an REI co-op studio's production brought to you by Capital One.
0:52.4	I fully expect when I come back from having seen the Earth as a small ball
0:58.8	against the blackness of space how different that will feel to be back on that planet. And to me that
1:04.7	perspective is everything we have here is not an absolute. It's just one way of
1:09.5	being. It's just one planet in a massive universe and that means it's not something to be taken for granted and it also means we're more alike than we are different.
1:21.0	Seeing Earth from so far away has given Christina a lot of perspective on her
1:25.8	planet in its wild places. Working at NASA requires a lot of discipline, as well as
1:31.7	a degree, an extensive experience in a technical field like engineering.
1:36.5	Christina studied physics and electrical engineering in school but she's also a free spirit.
1:42.2	She serves, rock climbs, and travels the world.
1:46.3	Over the years, she's picked up skills from adventuring outside that have been useful for her work as an astronaut.
1:59.6	Christina Cook, welcome to Wild Ideas Worth Living. We're so excited to have an astronaut on the show.
2:02.2	I mean, you epitomize adventure.
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