Crew-12 carried ESA French astronaut Sophie Adenot, NASA astronauts Jessica Meir and Jack Hathaway, and Roscosmos cosmonaut Andrey Fedyaev.
Sophie Adenot’s mission on the International Space Station is named Epsilon and will last nine months.
Several of the experiments Sophie Adenot will perform are prepared and will be monitored by the CADMOS centre for the development of microgravity applications and space operations at CNES’s field centre in Toulouse.
Sophie Adenot’s mission on the International Space Station is named Epsilon and will last nine months.
Sophie Adenot will conduct the ChlorISS experiment on the International Space Station together with 4,500 classes across France.
Belgian astronaut Raphael Liegeois is a member of the European Space Agency's 2022 astronaut class and experienced strong emotion watching Sophie Adenot lift off.
Crew-12 members are NASA astronauts Jessica Meir and Jack Hathaway, European Space Agency astronaut Sophie Adenot, and Russian cosmonaut Andrey Fedyaev.
Sophie Adenot first applied to be a European Space Agency astronaut in 2008 at age 25 and was rejected.
During her stay on the ISS, Sophie Adenot will serve as a crew specialist for Columbus, the European laboratory module, and for Kibo, the Japanese science module.
Sophie Adenot will conduct up to 36 European experiments aboard the ISS, including seven experiments developed by the French space agency CNES specifically for the εpsilon mission.
Sophie Adenot flew to space alongside NASA astronauts Jessica Meir and Jack Hathaway and Russian cosmonaut Andrey Fedyaev.
Sophie Adenot was selected as an ESA astronaut in 2022 from a pool of 22,000 candidates and then completed three years of training.
Sophie Adenot will test a system that uses artificial intelligence and augmented reality to enable astronauts to perform their own medical ultrasounds.
Sophie Adenot is the second French woman to fly to space.
Sophie Adenot will participate in more than 200 experiments aboard the International Space Station.
The Dragon Freedom crew comprised ESA astronaut Sophie Adenot, NASA astronauts Jessica Meir and Jack Hathaway, and Roscosmos cosmonaut Andrei Fedyayev.
Sophie Adenot became France's first woman helicopter test pilot in 2018.
Sophie Adenot recorded sounds of birds singing, footsteps on snow, and flowing streams to remind her of Earth during her spaceflight.
Sophie Adenot and Jack Hathaway are both experienced test pilots who used the pre-docking time to familiarize themselves with life and work in microgravity.
Sophie Adenot will test a system that uses artificial intelligence and augmented reality to enable astronauts to perform medical ultrasounds.