PIONEER Sophie Adenot will become the second French woman astronaut, after Claudie Haigneré. As obvious for this helicopter pilot, already used to breaking glass ceilings
Sophie Adenot will become the second French woman astronaut. — Francois Mori/AP/SIPA
The power of a childhood dream, the opportunity to to realize it. Sophie Adenot, selected on Wednesday in the new promotion of astronauts from the European Space Agency (ESA), becomes the second French female astronaut in history and walks in the footsteps of Claudie Haigneré.
“It’s quite an incredible moment, I’ve been dreaming of space since I was a little girl and the dream becomes… Not even concrete today because it’s hard to understand. realize what is happening!”, reacted Sophie Adenot in front of the press to the press. Paris after the announcement of the selection where include four other future astronauts, chosen from 22,000 applicants.
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First female helicopter test pilot
The 40-year-old Frenchwoman is a helicopter test pilot from the Air Force. After a childhood in Burgundy, this polyglot (she speaks English, German, Spanish and Russian) became an engineer and earned a diploma from the Ecole Nationale Supérieure de l’Aéronautique et de l’ ;space. Appointed lieutenant-colonel, she was the first female helicopter test pilot and now has 3,000 flying hours in 22 different helicopter types.
“I’ve been raised in a family where we have been pushed to to be curious a bit about everything. I grew up with the soul of an explorer,” the mother, in front of a swarm of cameras. His space dream goes back to; At a very young age, she had a unique poster in her bedroom: a rocket.
An inspired journey; by pioneer Claudie Haigné;
It all started with “the reading of the biography of Marie Curie”, then, ” At the age of 14, Claudie Haigneré has been “a real click” “I would never have made it there;” if I hadn’t had role models,” the astronaut, also paying homage to “fantastic school teachers” who “helped her to trust”.
From her new job, she expects “a lot of science, technology, and also to be able to pass on passion to young people” “It’s a new world, with a lot of unknowns, I will learn the job as I go. measure. I am delighted to follow in the footsteps of Thomas Pesquet”, commented. For his part, the star astronaut said to himself “proud” to see a French woman selected, before saluting her career and that of the Frenchman Arnaud Prost, who joins the reserve corps of the ESA.
“ They have health ; of iron, incredible skills, crazy CVs and above all, they have passed psychological tests that scared me in retrospect,” Thomas Pésquet. With her four other comrades, Sophie Adenot will be called upon to fly into orbit, in the International Space Station (ISS), as a first step.