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Archive photograph, for illustration. An ESA astronaut speaks at the announcement of the agency’s 2022 astronaut class.

Sophie Adenot back in Europe after 237 days aboard ISS

Archive photograph, for illustration. An ESA astronaut speaks at the announcement of the agency’s 2022 astronaut class. · 2022 · Sebastiaan ter Burg from Utrecht, The Netherlands · CC BY 2.0
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Adenot has returned from a 237-day stay aboard the International Space Station. ESA says it was the longest space mission by a European astronaut so far.

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Sophie Adenot is back in Europe after returning from the International Space Station with her Crew-12 colleagues, according to the European Space Agency (ESA). They undocked on 7 October following a handover to Crew-13 and splashed down off the California coast the next day, according to ESA. [1]

ESA says Adenot spent 237 days aboard the station and completed more than 3,700 orbits of Earth. It describes the flight as the longest space mission by a European astronaut so far. In an update on 12 October, ESA said she would begin post-flight data collection and rehabilitation as she readjusts to life on Earth. [1]

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