It ’s toilsome to think living as an cosmonaut . earn casual scientific breakthroughs while you revolve the globe , witnessing Earth from the good arse in the house as you go   – I think we can all agree it must be pretty unbelievable .   There is , however , one downside to man ’s final frontier in that NASA does n’t receive man ’s best protagonist along for the ride . But as the saying goes , distance make the gist develop fonder , and a recent video post toTwitterby NASA Astronaut Christina Koch showing the ticker - melt moment she sees her dog for the first metre certainly support the theory . ( N.B. : Ready the tissues )

In a macrocosm of rough reality wherebelugas do n’t really want to play fetchand it turns outwombats probably are n’t herding animals to safety , it ’s a joyous function when trial impression comes through that sometimes everything is n’t dreadful . Thestory of Christina ’s Koch’stime in quad is certainly lawsuit for good feeling , having boom many disc both as an spaceman and a char , so it seems only fitting that her journey should close on one of the most feel - good television on the Internet .

Having clocked   328 days in distance , Koch ’s mission is formally the longest unmarried spaceflight by any char , and the second - longest of any US astronaut . During her metre off from Earth , she took part in the first - ever all - female spacewalk , 3D printed biological tissue , grew leafy greens , and even found time to bake some cookies . Her chain of amazing achievements terminate just in time forInternational Day of Women and Girls in Scienceand saw her return alongside European Space Agency ( ESA ) astronaut Luca Parmitano and Russian astronaut Alexander Skvortsov .

After just unsure of a class in cramped conditions , exercising for around two hr a day to prevent muscle wastage and battling with thecomplexities of try on to eat on in space , I think it ’s safe to assume the disc - breaking astronaut was excited to regress to some of Earth ’s home comforts .   Her excitement it seems was matched by her wienerwurst , LBD ( Little Brown Dog ) who can be control in the video going dead nuts upon the arrival of her farseeing - scatty proprietor . In the Tweet , Koch wrote , “ Not certain who was more unrestrained . beaming she remember me after a twelvemonth ! "

NASA react to the wholesome scene with an cosmonaut signalise a pith symbol , while other users demanded more footage of spaceman being reunited with their dogs   – an initiative   that has our full sustenance .