The duo are scheduled to step outside the International Space Station<\/a> (ISS) for a 6.5-hour excursion today at around 8:35 a.m. EDT (1235 GMT). You can watch it live here at Space.com, courtesy of NASA. Coverage starts at 7 a.m. EDT (1100 GMT).<\/p>\n \n Sophie Adenot is part of the European Space Agency’s 2022 astronaut class. (Image credit: ESA)<\/p>\n Adenot and Menon will “replace a space-to-ground antenna on the orbital complex,” NASA officials wrote in a spacewalk preview<\/a>.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n “The antenna is a critical communications link NASA uses to transmit data, enabling high-speed communications between the Mission Control Center in Houston and the space station,” they added.<\/p>\n You may like<\/p>\n This will be the second spacewalk for Menon; his first one, conducted with fellow NASA astronaut Jessica Meir, occurred on Aug. 6<\/a>. During that extravehicular activity (EVA), a carbon dioxide sensor on Menon’s spacesuit gave “an unexpected data reading,” NASA officials wrote in an Aug. 7 update<\/a>.<\/p>\n The sensor returned to normal after Menon doffed the suit, but NASA took some extra time to make sure there was no serious issue. As a result, the agency pushed his second spacewalk back a few days \u2014 from the originally planned Aug. 13 to today.<\/p>\n Today’s spacewalk will be the 282nd overall in the long history of the ISS. Menon, who reached orbit on a Russian Soyuz spacecraft on July 14<\/a>, will be “crewmember 1” on the EVA. Adenot \u2014 a member of SpaceX’s Crew-12 mission<\/a>, which reached the orbiting lab in February \u2014 will be “crewmember 2.”<\/p>\n Adenot won’t be the first French person overall to conduct an EVA. That distinction goes to Jean-Loup Chr\u00e9tien, who performed a spacewalk outside the then-Soviet Union’s Mir space station<\/a> in 1988.<\/p>\n![\"a](\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/2zC5KQaMAC25gNRST9USCh.jpg\")
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