True: Christina Koch, the National Aeronautics and Space Administration's astronaut returns to earth after creating a record of logging 328 days in space.

By: Umme Kulsum
May 12 2020

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True: Christina Koch, the National Aeronautics and Space Administration's astronaut returns to earth after creating a record of logging 328 days in space.

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A press release by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) on 6 February 2020 confirms the claim.

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A press release by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) on 6 February 2020 confirms the claim.The Soyuz MS-13 spacecraft mission was launched in March 2019. On 6 February 2020, NASA astronaut Christina Koch returned to earth marking the end of the International Space Station mission, setting a record for the longest single spaceflight in the history by a woman. This was Christina Koch's first journey into space of 328 days and is the second-longest single spaceflight by a U.S. astronaut.

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