1 00:00:03,379 --> 00:00:06,040 WELCOME TO SPACE TO GROUND, I AM KAYLA LAFRANCE. 2 00:00:06,040 --> 00:00:10,800 ON TOP OF THE NORMAL HUSTLE AND BUSTLE OF SCIENCE RESEARCH AND LIFE ONBOARD THE SPACE STATION, 3 00:00:10,800 --> 00:00:13,160 THE CREW PREPARED FOR A SPECIAL HOMECOMING. 4 00:00:14,540 --> 00:00:20,720 RUSSIAN COSMONAUT ALEXANDER SKVORTSOV, ALONG WITH LUCA PARMITANO OF THE EUROPEAN SPACE AGENCY, 5 00:00:20,760 --> 00:00:25,019 AND NASA ASTRONAUT CHRISTINA KOCH, RETURNED HOME ON THURSDAY AFTER COMPLETING 6 00:00:25,019 --> 00:00:27,349 THEIR EXPEDITION 61 MISSION. 7 00:00:27,349 --> 00:00:32,640 BEFORE THEIR STAY ONBOARD ENDED, PARMITANO HANDED OVER COMMAND OF THE STATION TO CREWMATE 8 00:00:32,640 --> 00:00:35,660 OLEG SKRIPOCHKA OF ROSCOSMOS. 9 00:00:35,660 --> 00:00:41,340 THEN THE TWO CREWS SAID THEIR FAREWELLS, THE HATCH WAS CLOSED TO THE SOYUZ MS-13 SPACECRAFT 10 00:00:41,340 --> 00:00:45,580 AND THE RETURNING CREW UNDOCKED FROM THE STATION’S POISK MODULE. 11 00:00:45,580 --> 00:00:50,600 AFTER THE NEARLY 4-HOUR JOURNEY, THE CREW LANDED SAFELY IN KAZAKHSTAN, AND WAS GREETED 12 00:00:50,600 --> 00:00:53,700 BY A RECOVERY TEAM WHO TRANSPORTED THEM TO KARAGANDA. 13 00:00:53,700 --> 00:00:57,579 BEFORE THEY PARTED WAYS TO HEAD OFF TO THEIR HOME NATIONS. 14 00:00:57,580 --> 00:01:02,020 PARMITANO AND SKVORTSOV, SPENT 201 DAYS IN SPACE, HAVING LAUNCHED 15 00:01:02,020 --> 00:01:04,940 WITH NASA’S ANDREW MORGAN LAST JULY. 16 00:01:04,949 --> 00:01:09,390 MORGAN WILL REMAIN ON THE STATION WITH THE REST OF HIS EXPEDITION 62 CREWMATE’S UNTIL 17 00:01:09,390 --> 00:01:11,799 THEIR RETURN TO EARTH IN APRIL. 18 00:01:11,799 --> 00:01:16,819 KOCH SET THE RECORD FOR THE LONGEST SPACEFLIGHT MISSION BY A FEMALE ASTRONAUT AFTER COMPLETING 19 00:01:16,819 --> 00:01:21,039 HER 328 DAY LONG STAY ONBOARD THE SPACE STATION, 20 00:01:21,039 --> 00:01:27,590 SURPASSING THE PREVIOUS RECORD OF 288 DAYS HELD BY NASA ASTRONAUT PEGGY WHITSON. 21 00:01:27,590 --> 00:01:32,679 NOT ONLY DID CHRISTINA SET A NEW DURATION RECORD, SHE ALSO PARTICIPATED IN THE FIRST 22 00:01:32,679 --> 00:01:38,200 ALL WOMEN EVA WITH HER FRIEND AND CREWMATE, JESSICA MEIR BACK IN OCTOBER OF LAST YEAR. 23 00:01:38,200 --> 00:01:41,859 THE TWO OF THEM WOULD GO ON TO PREFORM TWO MORE EVAS TOGETHER. 24 00:01:41,859 --> 00:01:46,249 THIS WEEK, KOCH REFLECTED ON HER MULTI-RECORD BREAKING MISSION. 25 00:01:46,249 --> 00:01:51,600 "WELL FOR ME, IT'S JUST ALL ABOUT THE HONOR THAT I FEEL TO FOLLOW IN THE FOOTSTEPS OF 26 00:01:51,600 --> 00:01:55,520 MY HEROES, AND HOPEFULLY I CAN MAKE IT ABOUT PAYING HOMAGE TO THEM. 27 00:01:55,520 --> 00:01:59,159 THEY'RE THE ONES THAT PAVED THE WAY FOR US TO ALL BE WHERE WE ARE TODAY. 28 00:01:59,160 --> 00:02:04,140 AND ALSO I LOOK AT IT AS AN OPPORTUNITY TO HOPEFULLY INSPIRE THE NEXT GENERATION OF FUTURE EXPLORERS. 29 00:02:04,140 --> 00:02:08,520 I KNOW FOR ME IT WAS IMPORTANT TO SEE PEOPLE THAT I SAW A REFLECTION OF MYSELF IN GROWING 30 00:02:08,520 --> 00:02:11,580 UP WHEN I WAS ENVISIONING, YOU KNOW, WHAT I COULD DO WITH MY LIFE 31 00:02:11,580 --> 00:02:13,280 AND WHAT MY DREAMS MIGHT BE. 32 00:02:13,280 --> 00:02:17,980 SO, THE IDEA TO MAYBE BE THAT SOURCE OF INSPIRATION FOR SOMEONE ELSE IS JUST SUCH AN HONOUR, AND 33 00:02:17,980 --> 00:02:20,800 I HOPE TO CARRY THAT FORWARD EVEN WHEN I'M BACK ON EARTH." 34 00:02:21,260 --> 00:02:26,960 KOCH’S TIME IN SPACE ALSO WILL PROVIDE RESEARCHERS THE OPPORTUNITY TO OBSERVE EFFECTS OF LONG-DURATION 35 00:02:26,970 --> 00:02:32,450 SPACEFLIGHT ON A WOMAN, AS THE AGENCY PLANS TO RETURN TO THE MOON UNDER THE ARTEMIS PROGRAM 36 00:02:32,450 --> 00:02:35,920 AND PREPARE FOR HUMAN EXPLORATION AT MARS. 37 00:02:35,920 --> 00:02:40,720 DURING THIS RECORD-SETTING MISSION, KOCH SPENT MANY OF HER HOURS ON SCIENCE ACTIVITIES ABOARD 38 00:02:40,720 --> 00:02:46,690 THE SPACE STATION AND WORE MANY HATS: FARMER, BIOLOGIST, PHYSICIST, ENGINEER, TEST SUBJECT 39 00:02:46,690 --> 00:02:48,620 AND MANY MORE.