Sophie Adenot - 05.07.1982

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Dla astronautki rok 2024 był bardzo obfity w przyswajanie nowych umiejętności.

Adenot Sophie @Soph_astro 7:13 PM · Dec 24, 2024
2024 was truly not an ordinary year! 🚀 In just a few weeks, we’ll hit the one-year mark before the start of this 6-month mission… an amazing journey to the International Space Station.
My team keeps growing.
My skills expand day by day.
And I feel good vibes at every step of my astronaut training, thanks to the wonderful people I meet and thanks to your positive feedback– thank you! 🙏
I savor with deep gratitude every moment of this human, scientific, sporting, and technical adventure.
And today, I’m sending you happy & inspiring thoughts.
🥳 Happy holidays to all! A special thought to those far from their loved ones or affected by recent events. 🫶
📷 NASA, ESA, Joel Kastner (RIT)

https://x.com/Soph_astro/status/1871620334744379561

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Astronautka została uhonorowana medalem Lotnictwa.

Chef d'état-major armée de l'Air et de l'Espace @CEM_AAE 4:08 PM · Feb 28, 2025
Aviatrice, pilote d'essai, astronaute... Sophie Adenot trace une trajectoire hors du commun. Lui remettre la médaille de l'Aéronautique, c'est saluer un parcours d'exception et un destin tourné vers les étoiles.
Skala prochaine : l'espace.
Uroczystości, Sophie! 🚀

https://x.com/CEM_AAE/status/1895491196799361386

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Adenot Sophie @Soph_astro

Four years ago, French ESA astronaut Thomas Pesquet performed his 3rd EVA during his Alpha mission.
Did you know? Of the ten French astronauts who have flown to space (as of now 😉), only four have ever spacewalked!

🔹 1988: Jean-Loup Chrétien, first French astronaut & first European to perform an EVA.
🔹 1999: Jean-Pierre Haigneré also exits the Mir space station.
🔹 2002: Philippe Perrin helps assemble the ISS during three spacewalks from space shuttle Endeavour!
🔹 2017 & 2021: With six spacewalks and nearly 40 hours spent outside the ISS, @Thom_astro
 🥇 tops the list of the 13 Europeans who’ve gone on an EVA.
🔹 2022: She's Italian, but did part of her studies at @ISAE_officiel
! Samantha Cristoforetti becomes the first European woman to conduct a spacewalk.

Each EVA pushes human and technological limits. In the wider context of spaceflight, a spacewalk is truly an adventure within the adventure!
We train to perform complex, physiogically demanding and high-risk tasks, in an environment that’s anything but ordinary. The moment you exit the airlock, the view is so breathtaking you have to stay 100% focused to remember both your mission… and the risks involved. Special shoutout to my Italian colleague @astro_luca
, whose helmet started to fill with water 💦 during one of his EVAs. Hats off to Luca, who always stayed calm!

🤿 Since then, a “snorkel” has been added to the spacesuit, and the CapCom (the only person in direct contact with the astronauts during an EVA) now regularly asks for a ‘HAP check’: the astronaut tilts their head back to make sure the moisture-absorbing pad at the neck is still dry.

📷 1 : Infographic (ESA)
📷 2 : Jean-Loup Chrétien (CNES)
📷 3 : Thomas Pesquet (NASA–S. Kimbrough)
📷 4 : Luca Parmitano (ESA/NASA)

https://twitter.com/Soph_astro/status/1934614972580921611

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Adenot Sophie @Soph_astro

🤩 Feeling deeply honored and inspired at the idea that one day, there will be another mission patch among those of the French 🇫🇷 astronauts who’ve flown to space… and feeling amazed that it will be the one I will carry to represent France and Europe in space 🧑‍🚀!

🤩 Honorée et inspirée de voir figurer un jour un nouveau patch de mission spatiale parmi ceux des Français 🇫🇷 qui ont volé dans l’espace ! Et pleine de gratitude à l’idée d’imaginer que j’emporterai ce patch avec moi pour représenter la France et l’Europe dans l’espace 🧑‍🚀 !

https://twitter.com/Soph_astro/status/1935333834691649978

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Podczas misji SpaceX Dragon Crew-12 Adenot Sophie będzie miała kolejną misję europejską o nazwie εpsilon i emblemacie ogłoszonych dzisiaj na Paris Air Show

Adenot Sophie @Soph_astro

✨ Thrilled to share the name and patch of the next long-duration European mission!
εpsilon aims at reminding that even the smallest actions can spark change, ripple outward, and impact lives in ways we never imagined. May it inspire you to believe in yourself, and to keep chasing your dreams! 👩‍🚀

I would have loved to be in person at the Paris Air Show 🚁🚀🛰 ✈ to celebrate this moment with you, but of course the mission (and training!) comes first.

https://twitter.com/Soph_astro/status/1936082811754107322

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Adenot Sophie @Soph_astro
PVH, short for Premier Vol Habité (First Human Spaceflight) 🧑‍🚀🚀 – that was the name of the mission flown by the first French in space, Jean-Loup Chrétien… The tradition of naming French missions after stars or constellations had not yet been established!

Jean-Loup Chrétien launched on 24 June 1982 to the Salyut 7 space station, as part of a CNES-INTERCOSMOS mission. He spent nearly eight days in orbit and carried out around ten French experiments in astronomy 🔭, biology 🧪, materials science 🔬 and medicine 🩺. He even performed the very first ultrasound in space!

Eleven years later, in 1993, @CNES founded an operational structure that enables scientists to prepare and conduct a rich variety of experiments in microgravity. Today, the CADMOS teams are working hard to prepare the French experiments for the upcoming εpsilon mission! 🙏

📷 Credit : AFP (1), CNES (2), Intercosmos (3)

https://x.com/Soph_astro/status/1937532360204939534

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Adenot Sophie @Soph_astro
Friday, 20 June 2025. I'm in Dayton, Ohio, as part of my training with NASA…
It’s 4 a.m. and the National Museum of the U.S. Air Force (@AFmuseum
) is opening its doors just for me – a huge thank you 🙏 A bit later that morning, I’ll be live with the #SalonduBourget to reveal the name – εpsilon – and patch of the mission I’ve been assigned to!

This is one of the world’s largest aviation museum: more than 350 flying machines 🤩 are displayed across 1.12 million square feet! (That’s over 19 football fields!)

Together with Melanie and Tyler, we’re doing final checks before going live with Paris. Behind me: Endeavour, the Apollo 15 command module… 🚀🌕 In it, NASA astronaut Alfred M. Worden spent three days alone orbiting the Moon in July 1971, while David R. Scott and James B. Irwin landed the lunar module Falcon on the surface. Apollo 15 was the first mission to drive on Moon 🏎️, a giant leap forward!

Visiting a museum, seeing aircraft and space vehicles up close, imagining being in the cockpit… This has nurtured my space dreams ✨ since childhood.
There’s something truly magical about standing face-to-face with the very machines you've read so much about. And that magic? It works at any age.
Standing there gave me a boost of energy and inspiration for the next part of the day: centrifuge training!

📷 1, 3: U.S. Air Force photos by Ty Greenlees
📷 2, 4: ESA

https://twitter.com/Soph_astro/status/1938250506633142276

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Stephane SEBILE @spacemen1969
5 juillet

Très bon anniversaire (43) à @Soph_astro 🎂🎂🎂
(en pleine préparation de sa 1ère mission : εpsilon prévue pour mars 2026 - son prochain anniversaire, Sophie le fêtera à bord de l'ISS) (Et très content - fier aussi qu'elle préfacée notre avant-dernier livre)😃

https://twitter.com/spacemen1969/status/1941256707167900132

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Adenot Sophie @Soph_astro 9:14 PM · Feb 11, 2026
Art — through drawing and writing — helps me put words to my emotions.
Yesterday, after we learned our Falcon launch was delayed due to high winds, I took some time to sit on the grass, facing the rocket at KSC in Cape Canaveral, and I began to write…

This poem is the first in a series I will write throughout the mission, capturing what the journey feels like from the inside.

This one is about patience and resilience. I wanted to read it to you before launch…

🚀✨🌙 Echoes of εpsilon, I 🌙✨🚀
Patience and resilience

I sit in grass, the sun is warm,
Soft sandy earth, the day is calm,
Wind in my hair, I breathe in slow,
Eyes on Falcon, ready to go.
The gusty winds whisper hold/wait
So patience helps our hearts stay safe.

Our rocket waits, so tall and still,
The Dragon sleeps beside the hill,
Engines quiet, dreams on hold,
Bright metal wings, brave and bold,
The day will move when winds allow,
So patience teaches us to bow.

No dream comes true in just one day,
Patience resilience that’s the way,
So many hands have helped us through,
Teams who worked hard, steady and true.
Thank you all who helped us grow—
Together we make the dream go.

Patience… my guide, my inner light,
And that’s the deal, my dear: standby
Inside my soul, a quiet light,
Together now, with grateful hearts.
Cheer the child and future you,
From Earth we see one world, one crew.

—

L’art aide à mettre des mots sur les émotions. Pour moi, ce sont le dessin et l’écriture.
Hier, après avoir appris que notre lancement de Falcon était retardé par des vents forts, je me suis assise dans l’herbe face à la fusée à KSC Cap Canaveral, et j’ai commencé à écrire…

Ce poème est le premier d’une série que j’écrirai tout au long de la mission, pour raconter ce que ce voyage me fait ressentir de l’intérieur.

Ce premier poème parle de patience et de résilience.
#Crew12 • #εpsilon • @esa • @NASA • @NASAKennedy • @NASA_Johnson

https://twitter.com/Soph_astro/status/2021679148436168936

Sophie Adenot, the French astronaut reaching for the stars • FRANCE 24 English

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Human Spaceflight @esaspaceflight 10:09 AM · Feb 13, 2026
Every @esa astronaut chooses their own mission name and patch. Sophie chose #εpsilon — and behind it lies a powerful story.
🔗 https://esa.int/ESA_Multimedia/Images/2025/06/epsilon_mission_patch_2026

While we wait, check out this go-to guide for #Crew12 and #εpsilon, @esa's latest mission to orbit, featuring
@Soph_astro 👇
🇬🇧 English: https://esamultimedia.esa.int/docs/HRE/EPSILON_LaunchKit_EN.pdf
🇫🇷 French: https://esamultimedia.esa.int/docs/HRE/EPSILON_LaunchKit_FR.pdf

https://twitter.com/esaspaceflight/status/2022236730435539105
https://twitter.com/esaspaceflight/status/2022231924761387108

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Astronautka jest 644. człowiekiem w kosmosie oraz 84. kobietą.
11. osoba z Francji urodziła się 11 dni po starcie 1. Francuza w kosmos.
44. rocznica lotu pierwszego lotu Francuza przypadnie podczas jej lotu , a także 30. rocznica lotu pierwszej Francuzki.

Emmanuel Macron @EmmanuelMacron 9:33 AM · Feb 13, 2026
La messagerie de Sophie Adenot avant de décoller vers la station spatiale internationale : espace saturé.

https://twitter.com/EmmanuelMacron/status/2022227541365600718

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Sławosz Uznański-Wiśniewski @astro_slawosz 10:33 AM · Feb 13, 2026
Go @Soph_astro! Go Crew-12! 🔥🚀
Bon voyage!

European Space Agency @esa Last edited 9:32 PM · Feb 12, 2026
🚀 Crew‑12 is GO for launch!
This Friday, 13 February, at 10:15 GMT/11:15 CET, ESA astronaut @Soph_astro will be launched to the
@Space_Station  for her nine-month #εpsilon mission.
#WatchLive from 08:15 GMT/09:15 CET on #ESAwebTV and YouTube.
🔗http://esa.int/Science_Exploration/Human_and_Robotic_Exploration/Watch_live_Crew-12_launch_and_docking_updated

https://twitter.com/astro_slawosz/status/2022242763627229324

Alexander Gerst @Astro_Alex 11:16 AM · Feb 13, 2026
What a moment to watch a colleague you’ve supported along their journey finally lift off 🚀
It’s a mix of emotions - the tension as you cross fingers and toes that everything goes well, and at the same time the excitement for them as they’re about to begin the same adventure you experienced years ago. The ISS is one of humanity’s most unique workplaces. Living and working up there is an adventure that changes you forever.
Best of luck, @Soph_astro , Jessica Meir, Jack Hathaway and Andrej Fedyaev!!! Enjoy every second of your Epsilon mission. We’re all looking forward to your safe, happy and healthy return 🌍

https://twitter.com/Astro_Alex/status/2022253640652656658

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Komentarz 10. Francuza.

Thomas Pesquet @Thom_astro Last edited 9:19 AM · Feb 13, 2026
🚀🧑🏻‍🚀Dans quelques heures, @Soph_astro va s’élancer vers le rêve de sa vie : sa première mission vers la Station spatiale internationale.

🤝 Je me souviens encore de notre rencontre suite à la sélection de 2009 qui nous a rapprochés, de tout son parcours, méthodique, pendant les années qui ont suivies, de ses questions, des étapes qu’elle a mises en place une par une sans jamais dévier un instant de son but : la sélection suivante, en 2022, qu’elle a brillamment réussie.

🌌Aujourd’hui, comment ne pas imaginer l’excitation melée d’incrédulité qui doit l’habiter, l’envie de performance et le léger trac, les yeux qui brillent mais le pincement au ventre, que tous ressentent à l’approche du premier décollage.🥹
Le sourire qui tremble un peu au moment de vraiment partir. Ça n’a rien de facile de quitter la terre et les siens aussi longtemps. Rien du tout.

🔬🌍 Mais c’est important, et ça en vaut tellement la peine. Pour le progrès scientifique, bien sûr, mais aussi pour le supplément d’âme que ça nous donne à nous, qui restons sur la Terre, de voir quelqu’un réaliser son rêve de gosse, d’avoir surmonté tous les obstacles, d’avoir persévéré, progressé, d’y avoir cru, pour enfin se catapulter dans l’aventure d’une vie, et d’emmener un peu de notre humanité avec elle.

⭐💪 Nul doute qu’elle a fait tout ce qu’il est humainement possible de faire pour être prête. Alors vas-y Sophie, allume le ciel ! On est tous avec toi. 🫰

#εpsilon #epsilon #sophieadenot #ESA #astronaute @esa @ESA_fr @esaspaceflight ©️1 SpaceX / 2 : ESA / 3 : SpaceX

https://x.com/Thom_astro/status/2022224062953517463

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Chyba pozostali do 13. lutego ?

ESA France @ESA_fr Last edited 1:55 PM · Feb 11, 2026
Au Centre spatial Kennedy, d’où décollera bientôt l'astronaute @Soph_astro , les astronautes et experts de l’http://esa.int  @Arno_astro , Claudie Haigneré et Jean-Pierre Haigneré se préparent pour le jour J.
🚀 GO Sophie Go !

https://twitter.com/ESA_fr/status/2021568902640070900