Sophie Adenot’s time on the International Space Station has produced multiple noteworthy extravehicular activities (EVAs), and newly surfaced reporting fills in complementary details about those outings. Sources from NASA and independent news outlets document two separate spacewalk events in which Adenot participated: an EVA with NASA astronaut Anil Menon and a later all-female spacewalk with NASA astronaut Jessica Meir.
First French woman to perform an EVA
According to coverage by Phys.org, Sophie Adenot became the first French woman to venture outside the ISS for an EVA during a mission in which she was paired with NASA astronaut Anil Menon. A frame grab from a NASA live video stream accompanied that report, which noted the crew attempted to replace an antenna used for the station’s communications with Mission Control in Houston. NASA imagery and agency pages also show Adenot working on spacewalk tasks alongside Anil Menon, corroborating the pairing documented by the report.
All-female EVA with Jessica Meir
Separate NASA briefings and media reporting confirm Adenot later took part in the sixth all-female spacewalk on Sept. 1, 2026, together with Jessica Meir. NASA’s mission timeline shows the EVA began with suit battery power-up at 7:30 a.m. EDT and concluded at 3:29 p.m. EDT, producing an overall duration reported by media as 6 hours and 49 minutes. NASA and press accounts list mission tasks that included replacing a spacecraft docking aid and an HD camera, alongside maintenance and scientific activities.
Different pairings, overlapping objectives
The newly highlighted reports emphasize that Adenot’s EVAs spanned collaborative pairings and a range of maintenance objectives. The Phys.org article framed the EVA with Menon around a communications antenna replacement attempt, while NASA and news outlets described the Adenot-Meir EVA as focused on swapping a docking aid and an HD camera and performing other maintenance and science tasks. Together, these sources show Adenot contributing across multiple station needs during Expedition 75 operations.
Public documentation and imagery
NASA’s mission pages provide logistical details and public streaming information for the Sept. 1 EVA, including the suits’ battery power-up time and the platforms that carried the live coverage. NASA also published images showing Adenot on spacewalks, including an image caption noting Expedition 75 flight engineers Anil Menon and Sophie Adenot on an EVA. Independent coverage captured live-stream frame grabs used to identify the first-French-woman milestone and to document tasks performed during the Menon-Adenot EVA.
Combined, these sources expand the public record of Adenot’s contributions aboard the ISS: she not only partnered in the high-profile all-female EVA with Jessica Meir, but earlier marked a national milestone as the first French woman to perform an EVA while working alongside Anil Menon on station hardware and communications tasks.
