Walking on Air: France's Adenot Excited Ahead of Historic Space Walk
Adenot and Anil Menon will spend about 6.5 hours outside the station repairing a communications antenna, NASA said.
- French astronaut Sophie Adenot will conduct a spacewalk on Tuesday outside the International Space Station, joining U.S. astronaut Anil Menon to repair a high-speed communications antenna.
- Adenot becomes the first French woman to perform a spacewalk, following Claudie, who flew missions in 1996 and 2001 but did not conduct EVAs; she is the second European woman after Samantha Cristoforetti.
- Preparation involved months of training in a swimming pool, and French astronaut Jean-Pierre Haigneré described the physical demands: "every movement of the hand on a carabiner is like squeezing a tennis ball in half."
- Working 450 kilometres above Earth in a suit weighing around 250kg, Adenot called the mission "an adventure within the adventure," writing: "It will be my turn to head outside the Station."
- Adenot could carry out a second spacewalk on 25 August, while the mission reflects ESA commitment to guaranteeing space access as commercial and government activity in orbit expands.
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Times of IndiaISS to host first spacewalk by Frenchwoman
Sophie Adenot is set to become the first French female astronaut to venture outside the International Space Station for a spacewalk on Tuesday, accompanied by American astronaut Anil Menon.
Left since February, the French woman will carry out on Tuesday 18 August a mission of more than six hours, out of her vehicle, to replace an antenna.
French astronaut Sophie Adenot is about to mark the story by making Tuesday her first space trip from the Sophie Adenot International Space Station, on a mission in the
Sophie Adenot will become this Tuesday, August 18, the first Frenchman to make an extra-vehicular exit from the International Space Station (ISS). An operation of more than six hours, which will begin at 14h35 and will be...
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