ISS to Host First Spacewalk by Frenchwoman
The six-and-a-half-hour repair will be Sophie Adenot’s first spacewalk and Anil Menon’s second, 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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Adenot, of the European Space Agency (ESA), and the astronaut of Nasa Anil Menon came out of the station around 8:29, time on the east coast of the United States, at 14:29 in Italy
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Sofi Adeno (Sophie Adenot, 44) je danas postala prva Francuskinja koja je izvela svemirsku šetnju.
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