“Sadie taught me everything I needed to know about being an emotional support animal. Didn’t expect that would come in handy.”
Koch then takes her dog for a run along the beach.
The post has gathered thousands of likes and comments.
“Sadie has no idea how far you travelled to see her again. Love this so much,” read one comment.
“Orbiting the moon and running on the beach in the same week is unbelievable. I’m obsessed,” read another.
Christina Koch running with her dog, Sadie, after the trip to the moon. Photo / Christina Koch
Koch was one of four astronauts travelling on Artemis II, becoming the first humans to fly near the moon in more than 50 years.
Alongside Reid Wiseman, Victor Glover, and Jeremy Hansen, the four astronauts surpassed the record for distance from Earth set during the Apollo 13 mission in the 1970s.
The astronauts also carried out a lunar observation period lasting more than six hours, documenting surface features of the moon that had previously been captured mainly through robotic photography.
The Artemis II crew photographed an “Earthset” on their return journey, capturing the moment when the Earth dips below the moon’s horizon.
Nasa released the image as a nod to the famous Earthrise photo captured during the Apollo 8 mission in 1968.
“Humanity, from the other side,” the White House said, reposting the photo. “First photo from the far side of the Moon. Captured from Orion as Earth dips beyond the lunar horizon.”