Spationaut Sophie Adenot will be first French woman to walk in space

France 24 reports that Sophie Adenot will become the first French woman to conduct a spacewalk this Tuesday, when she'll perform repairs on the outside of the International Space Station. The task will require approximately six and a half hours of work in the physically demanding conditions of space.

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