Watch European astronaut make history during spacewalk today
On Aug. 18, European Space Agency astronaut Sophie Adenot will become the first French woman ever to perform a spacewalk, and you can watch the historic action live.
On August 18, European Space Agency astronaut Sophie Adenot will make history as the first French woman to conduct a spacewalk. She will join NASA astronaut Anil Menon on a 6.5-hour excursion outside the International Space Station. The walk will begin at around 8:35 a.m. EDT (1235 GMT) and can be watched live on Space.com, starting at 7 a.m. EDT (1100 GMT).
The pair will be replacing a critical space-to-ground antenna, a vital communication link between Mission Control in Houston and the ISS. This will be Menon's second spacewalk, with his first occurring on August 6 alongside Jessica Meir, where a faulty sensor was discovered but later resolved. Today's walk will be the 282nd in the ISS's history, with Menon as crewmember 1 and Adenot as crewmember 2.
Adenot, part of SpaceX's Crew-12 mission, previously participated in a spacewalk in February. While Adenot won't be the first Frenchwoman to perform an EVA, she follows in the footsteps of Jean-Loup Chrétien who conducted one outside the Soviet Union's Mir space station in 1988. Other French male astronauts, including Philippe Perrin and Thomas Pesquet, have also spacewalked outside the ISS, with Pesquet even commanding a mission.
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