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Who among the following created a record for the longest single spaceflight by a woman when she arrived back on Earth in February 2020?

Who among the following created a record for the longest single spaceflight by a woman when she arrived back on Earth in February 2020? Correct Answer <p>Christina Koch</p>

The correct answer is Christina Koch.

Key Points

  • Christina Koch
    • The astronaut Christina Hammock Koch of the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) created a record for the longest single spaceflight by a woman.
    • She beat the earlier record of 288 days of Peggy Whitson by spending over 300 days (from March 2019 to February 2020) in the space.
    • Time Magazine included her in the list of the '100 Most Influential People of 2020'.
  • Valentina Tereshkova​
    • Valentina Vladimirovna Tereshkova was the first and the youngest woman to land on the space in the year 1963.
    • The former Russian cosmonaut is till date the only woman to have been on a solo space mission.
  • Peggy Whitson​
    • Peggy Whitson of the USA is a former NASA astronaut with her first space mission in 2002.
    • She had also been the first woman to serve as the commander of the International Space Station.
    • In 2017 she broke the record of Samantha Cristoforetti of the longest (199 days,16 hours) single spaceflight by a woman with her 288 days stay in space.
  • Sally Ride
    • She was a former NASA astronaut from the USA.
    • She was the first and the youngest American woman to land in space.

Additional Information

  • The US record of the longest spaceflight was set by Scott Kelly in 2015-2016 by spending 340 days in space.
  • The first person to reach space in the year 1961 was Yuri Gagarin from the erstwhile USSR.
  • The first person to spend over 24 hours, in the year 1961 in space was Gherman Titov again from USSR.

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