Longest spaceflight by a woman coming up

By Kate Ryan
Updated April 18 2019 - 9:43am, first published 9:41am
US astronaut Christina Koch is set to break a record for the longest time spent in space by a woman.
US astronaut Christina Koch is set to break a record for the longest time spent in space by a woman.

A female astronaut is due to set a record for the longest spaceflight by a woman, the US space agency says, the same astronaut who was to have been in the first all-female spacewalk scrapped over lack of a right-sized spacesuit.