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Astronauts Sophie Adenot and Anil Menon performed a spacewalk outside the International Space Station to remove a faulty antenna. While they successfully removed the old antenna, they ran out of time to install the spare.
The Orion spacecraft carrying the Artemis II crew has successfully executed a key thruster firing, propelling it out of Earth's orbit and officially beginning its journey toward the Moon, marking the first human departure from Earth orbit since 1972. Astronauts are now en route for the first crewed lunar flyby in over 50 years.
French astronaut Thomas Pesquet is scheduled to return to space in 2027 for a mission to the ISS, while new French astronaut Arnaud Prost will undertake a private mission in 2028, marking significant upcoming French space endeavors.
France and its space agency CNES are partnering with the American startup Vast Space to send French astronaut Thomas Pesquet and Arnaud Prost to the ISS and a new commercial space station aboard SpaceX capsules.