Credit: NASA/Bill Ingalls

The NASA astronaut spent 328 straight days in orbit.

Early this morning, NASA astronaut Christina Koch, along with ESA astronaut Luca Parmitano and Russian cosmonaut Alexander Skvortsov, made the return to Earth from the International Space Station in a Soyuz capsule. The capsule departed the ISS at 12:50 AM EST, and safely touched down in Kazakhstan at 4:12 AM EST.

Koch’s 328-day stay has set an official record for second-longest stay in orbit, only 12 days behind Scott Kelley’s 340-day stay. She has also broken the record for longest stay in space by a woman, breaking the previous record of 289 days held by US astronaut Peggy Whitson. According to NASA’s statistics, during her stay on the ISS, Koch made 5,248 complete orbits around the Earth, a measured distance of about 139 million miles. On the station itself, Koch completed six spacewalks in total, and was also a member of the very first all-women spacewalk alongside Jessica Meir, which is another record under her belt.

Koch and the other returning astronauts all seemed to be in good health and spirits upon their retrieval in Kazakhstan, though just to be safe, they will all be undergoing the usual bevy of medical checkups for returning astronauts. After that, Koch will be joining NASA’s ongoing research into long-duration spaceflights, which will hopefully allow for manned missions as far as Mars someday.