美国宇航员克里斯蒂娜·科赫，创造了女性最长太空飞行的记录

美国宇航员克里斯蒂娜·科赫，创造了女性最长太空飞行的记录

A US astronaut set a record Saturday for the longest single spaceflight by a woman, breaking the old mark of 288 days with about two months left in her mission.

上周六，一名美国宇航员创造了一项由女性完成的最长单次太空飞行的纪录，打破了288天的旧纪录，此时距离她的太空任务还有大约两个月的时间。

Christina Koch, a 40-year-old electrical engineer from Livingston, Montana, arrived at the International Space Station on March 14. She broke the record set by former space station commander Peggy Whitson in 2016-2017.

来自蒙大拿利文斯顿的40岁电气工程师克里斯蒂娜·科赫于3月14日抵达国际空间站。她打破了前空间站指挥官佩吉·惠特森在2016-2017年创下的纪录。

Koch is expected to spend a total of 328 days, or nearly 11 months, on board the space station before returning to Earth. Missions are typically six months, but NASA announced in April that it was extending her mission until February.

在返回地球之前，科赫预计将在空间站停留328天，或近11个月。任务通常为6个月，但NASA在4月宣布将延长任务至2月。

The US record for longest space flight is 340 days set by Scott Kelly in 2015-2016. The world record is 15 months set in the 1990s by a Russian cosmonaut aboard the former Mir space station.

美国最长的太空飞行纪录是斯科特·凯利在2015-2016年创造的340天。上世纪90年代，一名俄罗斯宇航员在前和平号空间站上用15个月创造了世界纪录。

Koch’s extended mission will help NASA learn about the effects of long spaceflights, data that NASA officials have said is needed to support future deep space exploration missions to the Moon and Mars.

科赫的扩展任务将帮助NASA了解长时间太空飞行的影响，NASA官员称需要这些数据来支持未来的月球和火星深空探测任务。

Before breaking the endurance record for a woman in space, Koch set another milestone as part of the first all-female spacewalking team in October. It was Koch’s fourth spacewalk.

在打破女性太空行走耐力记录之前，科赫在10月份作为第一个全女性太空行走团队的一员，创下了另一个里程碑。这是科赫第四次太空行走。

She previously said she took a lot of helpful advice from Kelly’s 2017 autobiography “Endurance.”

她之前说她从凯利2017年的自传《耐力》中获得了很多有用的建议。