Space Agency: Sophie Adenot, new French astronaut

​The European Space Agency (ESA) has just announced that French astronaut Sophie Adenot is now part of the new cohort of European astronauts. This engineer and pilot became the second French female astronaut in history, after Claudie Haigneré. On the occasion of this announcement, the French Government decided to increase its contribution to the European program in order to strengthen Europe’s autonomy in the space sector and in particular to ensure better monitoring of climate change.