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Pago Pago, AMERICAN SAMOA — We knew her as Tina Hammock, who in 2013 was the NOAA station chief for their Climate and Atmosphere Observatory on the eastern end of Tutuila at Cape Matatula. She left American Samoa that year after being chosen from a pool of over 6,000 applicants to become a NASA...

![In this file photo, NASA astronaut Christina Koch (right) is pictured with Teri Hunkin who interviewed her for Samoa News in 2013. [SN file photo] NASA astronaut Christina Koch with Teri Hunkin at Samoa News in 2013](https://www.samoanews.com/sites/default/files/styles/teaser/public/field/image/tina_n_teri_9928.jpg?itok=K8md1ejN)