(FILES) French astronaut Sophie Adenot speaks to children from the International Space Station during a video call, at the Centre Nationale d'Etudes Spatiale (CNES), in Toulouse on June 3, 2026. Sophie Adenot became the first French female astronaut to venture outside the International Space Station for a spacewalk on August 18, 2026, accompanied by American astronaut Anil Menon. President Emmanuel Macron hailed Sophie Adenot's spacewalk, describing the event as a source of "French pride" and seeing the astronaut as "the face of all possibilities." (Photo by Ed JONES / AFP via Getty Images)