Quote: When NASA launches its Artemis II mission, scheduled for this week, one astronaut will make history simply by taking her seat aboard the spacecraft. Christina Koch is set to become the first woman ever to travel beyond low-Earth orbit toward the moon, a milestone moment in human spaceflight.

Artemis II is scheduled to launch no earlier than Wednesday, April 1, during a two-hour window opening at 6:24 p.m. EDT, sending four astronauts on a 10-day journey around the moon and back to Earth. The mission will test the Orion spacecraft’s life-support systems with a crew onboard for the first time as well as navigation and communications technologies essential for future lunar landings.

Quote: Koch is making history as the first woman on a moon mission on Wednesday aboard NASA’s Artemis II mission. But she also set another record earlier in her career. 
Koch spent 328 days in space from 2019 to 2020, setting the record for the longest continuous spaceflight by a woman and participating in the first all-woman spacewalk.