ESA astronaut Sophie Adenot from France, a member of the ESA Astronaut Class of 2022, was selected in November 2022 from over 22,500 candidates who applied to ESA’s 2021 call for new astronauts.

She began her year-long basic astronaut training at ESA’s European Astronaut Centre (EAC) in Cologne, Germany, in April 2023. This training covered spacecraft systems, spacewalking, flight engineering, robotics, life support systems, survival, and medical training. Sophie received her astronaut certification alongside fellow astronaut candidates Rosemary Coogan, Pablo Álvarez Fernández, Raphaël Liégeois, and Marco Sieber at EAC on 22 April 2024, officially marking her transition into a fully-fledged astronaut.

In May 2024, Sophie was announced for her first spaceflight mission, currently scheduled for 2026 to the International Space Station. After completing her pre-assignment training, she is now in mission-specific preparation, focusing on the tasks and experiments she will perform during her stay on the Space Station.

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