'An incredible privilege and responsibility': Artemis 2's Christina Koch is ready to become the 1st woman to fly around the moon

A woman with long dark hair wears a blue flight suit with the circular NASA logo on it and sits behind a desk with a microphone.

Christina Koch is ready to make history.

Koch is one of the four astronauts of Artemis 2, which is scheduled to launch on its round-the-moon mission no earlier than April 1. During her career as a NASA astronaut, she has spent more than 300 days aboard the International Space Station, and she performed the first all-woman spacewalk with Jessica Meir. Artemis 2 will make her the first woman ever to go beyond low Earth orbit (LEO).