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NASA's Record-Setting Astronaut Christina Koch 'Feels Good' After Year in Space
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1:10Now PlayingNASA's new record-setting astronaut said Wednesday that aside from sore muscles and trouble with balance, she's readjusting well to gravity after nearly 11 months in space.
Christina Koch met with reporters in Houston six days after returning to Earth from the International Space Station.
Her 328-day mission — which ended last Thursday — was the longest ever by a woman.
She considers herself lucky she didn't have the sore feet and burning skin suffered four years ago by NASA's all-time endurance champ, Scott Kelly, whose mission lasted 340 days.
Koch returned home to Galveston, Texas, to find a kitchen full of chips and salsa, something she'd craved in orbit, along with the Gulf of Mexico.
She hit the beach with her husband, Bob, and their dog, a rescue pup named LBD for Little Brown Dog, just three days after her landing in Kazakhstan.
LBD was excited to see her, and vice versa.
The 41-year-old Koch is an electrical engineer who also has a physics degree.
She flew to the space station last March and was part of the first all-female spacewalk in October.
Three astronauts remain at the orbiting lab, including the other half of the all-female spacewalk, NASA's Jessica Meir.
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