NC astronaut Christina Koch tweets image of Outer Banks from ISS

RALEIGH, N.C. — "It took my breath away."

Those were the words of a North Carolina native who got to see the Outer Banks from space.

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NC State graduate and NASA astronaut Christina Koch Tweeted a photo of North Carolina's barrier islands taken from the International Space Station.

Koch is on a mission at the space station which will go down in the record books.

She will not return to Earth until Feb. 2020, spending 328 days in space -- the longest single spaceflight ever by a woman.

The longest single spaceflight by any NASA astronaut is 340 days -- set by Scott Kelly in 2015-2016.

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