Sophie Adenot is set to become the first French female astronaut to venture outside the International Space Station (ISS) for a spacewalk on Tuesday, accompanied by American astronaut Anil Menon.

The spacewalk is scheduled to start at around 1435 CET and last six and a half hours, with the goal of replacing a space-to-ground antenna on the orbital complex, according to NASA.

Adenot, 44, will be the second European woman to conduct a spacewalk, after Italian astronaut Samantha Cristoforetti’s mission in 2022.

The French astronaut has been preparing for the operation for several days aboard the ISS, in orbit 400 kilometres above the Earth.

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