Watch European astronaut make history during spacewalk today
Sophie Adenot will make spaceflight history today (Aug.
18).
The European Space Agency (ESA) astronaut will become the first French woman ever to conduct a spacewalk, an activity she'll undertake with NASA astronaut Anil Menon.
The duo are scheduled to step outside the International Space Station (ISS) for a 6.5-hour excursion today at around 8:35 a.m.
EDT (1235 GMT).
You can watch it live here at Space.com, courtesy of NASA.
Coverage starts at 7 a.m.
EDT (1100 GMT).
Sophie Adenot is part of the European Space Agency's 2022 astronaut class. (Image credit: ESA) Adenot and Menon will "replace a space-to-ground antenna on the orbital complex," NASA officials wrote in a spacewalk preview .
"The antenna is a critical communications link NASA uses to transmit data, enabling high-speed communications between the Mission Control Center in Houston and the space station," they added.
This will be the second spacewalk for Menon; his first one, conducted with fellow NASA astronaut Jessica Meir, occurred on Aug.
6 .
During that extravehicular activity (EVA), a carbon dioxide sensor on Menon's spacesuit gave "an unexpected data reading," NASA officials wrote in an Aug.
7 update .
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