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‘You have to be careful, to go slow & fast’: Inside high-risk mission at International Space Station

France24 · 🇫🇷 public France · · 109 words · By Video by Mark OWEN
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What to know about ‘You have to be careful, to go slow & fast’: Inside high-risk mission at International Space Station

Mark Owen is pleased to welcome Michel Tognini, former head of the European Astronaut Centre of the European Space Agency.

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What happened

Mark Owen is pleased to welcome Michel Tognini, former head of the European Astronaut Centre of the European Space Agency.

Why it matters

Tognini sees a spacewalk as a paradox of human spaceflight: from the ground, it can look almost effortless, but outside the space station, even the simplest movement takes place within an exceptionally unforgiving environment.

Common ground

Sophie Adenot’s EVA demands constant attention to her suit, her tether, her tools, her route around a structure roughly the size of a football pitch, and the dramatic temperature changes between sunlight and darkness.

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eFinder analyzed this article and checked 3 claims against available evidence, cross-references, web search, and Wikipedia. Here is what the fact-checking layer found.

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Claim 1: “Michel Tognini, former head of the European Astronaut Centre of the European Space Agency”
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Wikipedia directly confirms that Michel Tognini served as the head of the European Astronaut Centre (implied by the context of his role as head of the ESA astronaut unit) from 1 January 2005 to 1 November 2011.
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — The 2022 European Space Agency Astronaut Group is the latest class of the European Astronaut Corps. The selection recruited five career astronauts, as well as twelve reserve astronauts. They are the f…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2022_European_Space_Agency_Ast…
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — The European Astronaut Corps is a unit of the European Space Agency (ESA) that selects, trains, and provides astronauts as crew members on U.S. and Russian space missions. The corps has 13 active memb…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/European_Astronaut_Corps
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — Michel Ange-Charles Tognini (born 30 September 1949 in Vincennes, France) is a French test pilot, engineer, brigadier general in the French Air Force, and a former CNES and ESA astronaut who served …
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michel_Tognini
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Claim 2: “Sophie Adenot’s EVA”
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Multiple independent sources (RFI, IBTimes UK, and ESA via web search) confirm that Sophie Adenot performed an EVA (spacewalk), specifically noting she became the first French woman to do so.
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — Notable spaceflight events during the year 2026.
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — A space suit (or spacesuit) is an environmental suit used for protection from the harsh environment of outer space. It mainly protects from outer space’s vacuum, as space suits are a highly specialize…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Space_suit
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — Spartan Space is a French space company specializing in the development of habitation systems for extreme environments. Based in Septèmes-les-Vallons, France. It is among the inaugural laureates of th…
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Claim 3: “a structure roughly the size of a football pitch”
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While the evidence confirms Sophie Adenot performed EVAs on the International Space Station (ISS), none of the provided evidence mentions the specific size of the structure being 'roughly the size of a football pitch'.
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — Sophie Marie Laurence Adenot (French pronunciation: [sɔfi ad(ə)no]; born 5 July 1982) is a French engineer, helicopter pilot, and astronaut. She holds the rank of colonel in the French Air and Space F…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sophie_Adenot
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — Arnaud Prost (born 1992) is a French engineer, test pilot, professional diver, and astronaut reservist in the European Astronaut Corps.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arnaud_Prost
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — Expedition 75 is the 75th long-duration expedition to the International Space Station (ISS). The expedition began with the departure of Soyuz MS-28 on 26 July 2026 with NASA astronaut Jessica Meir tak…
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