Christina Hammock Koch: Artemis Astronaut
by Carla Mooney (Writer)
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Booktalk: Uncover the life story of NASA astronaut Christina Hammock Koch.

Born in Grand Rapids, Michigan, and raised in North Carolina, Christina Hammock Koch dreamed about touring to area since childhood. She visited NASA’s area camp all through her highschool years, which furthered her conviction. In faculty she studied electrical engineering and physics after which made her technique to NASA as an engineer. However she needed a extra different expertise. She joined the Antarctic Analysis program, a problem that expanded her horizons.

She went again to NASA as an engineer and frolicked in Maryland, Greenland, and Alaska earlier than making use of to the area program in 2012. She was admitted, and in 2019 she achieved her dream of touring to area. She made historical past by being a part of the primary all-women spacewalk. Her subsequent objective: Going to the moon . . . and we simply noticed it occur!

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The creator, Carla Mooney, is certainly one of my former college students.

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