刚刚，NASA宇航员克里斯蒂娜·科赫，正式打破了一项新的太空飞行记录

刚刚，NASA宇航员克里斯蒂娜·科赫，正式打破了一项新的太空飞行记录

NASA's Christina Koch returned to Earth safely on Thursday after shattering the spaceflight record for female astronauts with a stay of almost 11 months aboard the International Space Station.

美国宇航局女宇航员克里斯蒂娜·科赫于本周四安全返回地球，此前她在国际空间站呆了近11个月，打破了女宇航员在太空飞行的记录。

Koch touched down at 09:12 GMT on the Kazakh steppe after 328 days in space, along with Luca Parmitano of the European Space Agency and Alexander Skvortsov of the Russian space agency.

在太空飞行328天后，科赫于格林尼治时间9点12分在哈萨克斯坦的草原上着陆，同行的还有欧洲航天局的卢卡·帕尔米塔诺和俄罗斯航天局的亚历山大·斯克沃尔佐夫。

Koch was shown seated and smiling broadly after being extracted from the Soyuz descent module in the Roscosmos space agency's video footage from the landing site.

在俄罗斯宇航局从着陆地点拍摄的视频中，从联盟号下降舱中取出科赫后，他坐着，面带笑容。

"I am so overwhelmed and happy right now," said Koch, who blasted off on 14 March last year.

去年3月14日升空的科赫说:“我现在很激动也很开心。”

Parmitano pumped his fists in the air after being lifted into his chair while Skvortsov was shown eating an apple.

帕尔米塔诺在被抬到椅子上后挥舞着拳头，而斯克沃尔佐夫正在吃苹果。

Koch, a 41-year-old Michigan-born engineer, on 28 December last year beat the previous record for a single spaceflight by a woman of 289 days, set by NASA veteran Peggy Whitson in 2016-17.

现年41岁的科赫是密歇根州出生的工程师，去年12月28日，她打破了美国宇航局(NASA)老兵佩吉·惠特森(Peggy Whitson)在2016-17年度创下的289天女性单飞纪录。

Koch called three-time flyer Whitson, now 60, "a heroine of mine" and a "mentor" in the space programme after she surpassed the record.

现年60岁的惠特森曾三次飞行，在打破纪录后，科赫称她为“我的女英雄”和太空项目的“导师”。

She also spoke of her desire to "inspire the next generation of explorers."

她还谈到她希望“激励下一代探险家”

Koch also made history as one half of the first-ever all-woman spacewalk along with NASA counterpart Jessica Meir - her classmate from NASA training - in October last year.

去年10月，科赫与美国国家航空航天局同行杰西卡·梅尔(她在美国国家航空航天局训练时的同学)一起进行了史上首次全女性太空行走。

She will now head to NASA headquarters in Houston, via the Kazakh city of Karaganda and Cologne in Germany, where she will undergo medical testing.

她现在将前往休斯顿的美国宇航局总部，途经哈萨克斯坦城市卡拉干达和德国科隆，在那里接受医学检测。

Koch's medical data will be especially valuable to NASA scientists as the agency draws up plans for a long-duration manned mission to Mars.

科赫的医疗数据将对美国宇航局的科学家特别有价值，因为该机构正在起草一项长期载人火星任务的计划。