Sophie Adenot just became the first Frenchwoman to do a spacewalk at the International Space Station (ISS). It's another notch on the 44-year-old astronaut's belt, as Adenot was also France's first female helicopter test pilot in 2018. She is a colonel in the French Air and Space Force.
'Our astronaut Sophie Adenot is about to step outside the ISS for the very first time,' the European Space Agency posted on Instagram, along with a photo of Adenot training for the mission. 'It's her first-ever spacewalk, officially designated U.S. EVA-97. She'll be out there with NASA astronaut (Anil Menon), and together they'll replace a Space-to-Ground antenna. That's the system that keeps high-speed data and voice links running between Mission Control in Houston and the crew on board.'
