RERELEASE: Becoming the First Woman to Travel Around the Moon with Christina Koch

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🗓️ 13 April 2026

⏱️ 29 minutes

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Welcome back to Earth, Artemis II crew! In honor of Christina Koch becoming the first woman to travel around the moon, we're rereleasing her episode from 2024. What if you had an opportunity to travel around the moon? Christina Koch has worked at NASA for the last 10 years, and has been a part of groundbreaking missions in outer space. In 2019, Christina embarked on a 328-day stay on the International Space Station, setting a record for the longest single space flight by a woman. Now Christina has a new assignment on the horizon. She was selected to join a crew that will travel around the moon.

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0:00.0	I love all the beautiful scenery Earth has to offer, the rolling tides, the lush forests, even the dusty deserts.
0:11.3	But imagine zooming out and seeing all of that at once.
0:15.1	That's what astronaut and engineer Christina Cook gets to do.
0:18.8	For the last 10 years, Christina's worked at NASA, and she's been part of some
0:22.9	groundbreaking missions in outer space. In 2019, Christina left for a 328-day stay on the International
0:30.4	Space Station, setting a record for the longest single spaceflight by a woman. Now, Christina has a new
0:37.2	assignment on the horizon.
0:38.9	She was selected to join a crew that will travel around the moon.
0:43.6	I'm Shelby Stanger, and this is Wild Ideas Worth Living,
0:47.1	an REI Co-op Studios production brought to you by Capital One.
0:53.5	I fully expect when I come back from having seen the Earth as a small ball against the
0:59.4	blackness of space, how different that will feel to be back on that planet.
1:04.1	And to me, that perspective is everything we have here is not an absolute.
1:08.4	It's just one way of being.
1:10.4	It's just one planet in a massive universe.
1:13.7	And that means it's not something to be taken for granted. And it also means we're more
1:18.5	alike than we are different. Seeing Earth from so far away has given Christina a lot of
1:25.0	perspective on her planet and its wild places. Working at NASA requires
1:29.8	a lot of discipline, as well as a degree, an extensive experience in a technical field like engineering.
1:36.7	Christina studied physics and electrical engineering in school, but she's also a free spirit.
1:42.4	She surfs, rock climbs, and travels the world. Over the years,
1:47.4	she's picked up skills from adventuring outside that have been useful for her work as an astronaut.
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