Sophie Adenot: First French woman to walk in space

To display this content from YouTube, you must enable advertisement tracking and audience measurement. One of your browser extensions seems to be blocking the video player from loading. To watch this content, you may need to disable it on this site. Cover image: Sophie Adenot: First French woman to walk in space © NASA / France 24 01:02 Issued on: 18/08/2026 - 17:04 Sophie Adenot became the first French female astronaut to venture outside the International Space Station for a spacewalk on August 18, accompanied by American astronaut Anil Menon. Keywords for this article