Christina Koch Just Circled the Moon—and Made History

Christina Koch just circled the moon—and made history

Already a record-breaking astronaut, Koch is now the first woman to travel around the moon.

University of Ghana student ‘Christina Koch’ to travel Moon

American Astronaut – Christina Koch is on track to become the first woman to travel to the vicinity of the Moon. She studied Astrophysics at the University of Ghana. Koch, is of 47 and is among the four-person crew aboard the Orion spacecraft for NASA’s Artemis-II mission. It lifted off on Wednesday evening from Kennedy Space Center in Florida for a 10-day journey.  Reportedly, it is the 685,000-mile journey, a lunar fly-by, that marks the first…