Sophie Adenot’s first spacewalk
The spacewalk is a critical maintenance task to ensure reliable communications between the station and Mission Control.
ESA astronaut Sophie Adenot will take part in her first-ever spacewalk during U.S. Spacewalk 97. Together with NASA astronaut Anil Menon, she will replace a Space-to-Ground antenna on the International Space Station, a critical communications system that enables high-speed data and voice links between Mission Control in Houston and the space station.
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