Sophie Adenot logged 3,000 flight hours and 120 combat missions prior to her spaceflight.
Sophie Adenot is a 43-year-old helicopter test pilot who will spend eight months on the International Space Station conducting scientific experiments.
Sophie Adenot became France's first woman helicopter test pilot in 2018.
Sophie Adenot is the first career astronaut from ESA's 2022 astronaut class, known as the Hoppers, to fly on a space mission.
Sophie Adenot launched on a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket from Cape Canaveral after two days of delays.
Claudie Haignere views Sophie Adenot as her heir and a pioneer in French human spaceflight.
Sophie Adenot is the second French woman to fly to space following Claudie Haignere.
Sophie Adenot studied at Massachusetts Institute of Technology and worked at Airbus as a helicopter cockpit designer.
Sophie Adenot and her three crewmates are scheduled to arrive at the International Space Station to relieve a skeleton crew of three astronauts.
After two days of delays, Jessica Meir, Jack Hathaway, Sophie Adenot, and Andrey Fedyaev launched on a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket from Cape Canaveral.
Sophie Adenot is a 43-year-old helicopter test pilot.
Sophie Adenot was selected for the European Space Agency astronaut corps in 2022 from a pool of 22,000 candidates and undertook three years of training.
Sophie Adenot will spend eight months conducting scientific experiments aboard the International Space Station.
The research Sophie Adenot will conduct includes studying microgravity's effect on the human body and measuring how time in orbit impacts memory.
Sophie Adenot will participate in more than 200 experiments aboard the ISS during her mission.
Sophie Adenot will conduct up to 36 experiments from Europe during the εpsilon mission, including seven developed by the French space agency CNES specifically for εpsilon.
Sophie Adenot and Jack Hathaway are both experienced test pilots and are flying to space for the first time.
Sophie Adenot is the first career astronaut of ESA’s 2022 'Hoppers' class to fly to the International Space Station.
During the εpsilon mission Sophie Adenot will serve as a crew specialist in the Columbus laboratory module and in the Japanese Kibo module.
The SpaceX Dragon Freedom capsule docked with the ISS on 14 February 2026 at 21:15 CET carrying ESA astronaut Sophie Adenot, NASA astronauts Jessica Meir and Jack Hathaway, and Roskosmos cosmonaut Andrej Fedjajew.