NASA astronaut Christina Koch preflight jersey t-shirt. The jersey depicting the image of launching Soyuz, on the right in red printed letters in Cyrillic Expedition 59-60.

On the back printed name KOCH, image of ISS and word BAIKONUR and garland of USA flags.

Soyuz MS-12 was Soyuz spaceflight which launched on 14 March 2019, carrying three members of Expedition 59 crew to ISS. Roscosmos cosmonaut Aleksei Ovchinin and NASA astronaut Nick Hague from the ill-fated Soyuz MS-10 mission, this time accompanied by NASA astronaut Christina Koch, lifted off aboard Soyuz MS-12 on March 14, 2019 and successfully entered orbit around nine minutes later.

Koch performed the first all-female spacewalk with Jessica Meir on October 18, as part of a lengthy series of upgrades to the ISS' power systems and physics observatories.

Koch and Meir followed the historic walk with two more female team walks in January 2020.

On April 17, 2019, due to reassignment schedule with the Commercial Crew Development program, Koch's mission was extended to February 2020. She returned to Earth on February 6 after 328 days – the longest single continuous stay in space for a woman, exceeding Peggy Whitson’s 289 days.

In addition, for a first-time astronaut, this NASA mission change has never happened before.

Koch's extended mission is being used to study the physical, biological, and mental effects of long-term space travel on women.

Koch was selected as one of the crew members for NASA’s upcoming Artemis program (2024)

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