Human Spaceflight: A Mission to the International Space Station

Description

Please join the Johns Hopkins Applied Physics Laboratory (APL) for a colloquium presentation by NASA astronaut Christina Koch, who was recently selected as one of 18 astronauts to form the Artemis Team. She will discuss her experiences as an astronaut on board the International Space Station (ISS) for expeditions 59, 60, and 61. While on the ISS, in addition to contributing to hundreds of experiments in biology, earth science, human research, physical science, and technology development, she set the record for the longest single spaceflight by a woman and conducted six spacewalks, including the first three all-women spacewalks.

This is a hybrid event; to attend virtually, please use the Zoom link to watch the livestream.

About the Speaker

Koch's career prior to becoming an astronaut spanned both space-science instrument development for the Goddard Space Flight Center and the Johns Hopkins APL and remote scientific field engineering for the U.S. Antarctic Program and the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration. She is currently serving in a rotational position as the director's assistant for technical integration at the NASA Johnson Space Center.

Koch, a native of Grand Rapids, Michigan, grew up in Jacksonville, North Carolina, and resided in Livingston, Montana, before relocating to Houston, Texas, to join the Astronaut Corps. She was selected as an astronaut by NASA in 2013 and completed astronaut candidate training in 2015. She holds a Bachelor of Science in electrical engineering, a Bachelor of Science in physics, and a Master of Science in electrical engineering from North Carolina State University.

About the Series

The APL Colloquium is one of the longest standing technical and scientific lecture series in the Washington/Baltimore area. The goal of the Colloquium has been to bring to the Laboratory scientific scholars, technical innovators, industry leaders, government sponsors, and policy makers to inform, educate, and enlighten Laboratory staff on what is currently exciting, relevant, and of value to the work of APL.