AFP | Washington
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Sophie Adenot became the first French female astronaut to venture outside the International Space Station for a spacewalk yesterday, accompanied by American astronaut Anil Menon.
During the six-and-a-half hour mission, the two astronauts were to replace an antenna that allows the ISS to communicate with mission control in Houston, according to NASA.
"I'm out," Adenot, 44, said after exiting the ISS, some 400 kilometers (250 miles) above the Earth. "I feel very good now."
Adenot, 44, became the second European woman to conduct a spacewalk after Italian astronaut Samantha Cristoforetti's 2022 mission.
The two space travelers could be heard chatting and laughing in NASA footage of their adventure.
President Emmanuel Macron hailed Adenot's space walk as a cause for "French pride," leading a chorus of praise from political leaders in her home country.
