France, Aug. 18 -- In a photograph published by NASA on the ISS blog, Adenot is smiling as she tries on a white spacesuit.

"It will be my turn to head outside the Station," Adenot wrote on social media.

A spacewalk, or extravehicular activity (EVA), is "an adventure within the adventure", she said at a press conference before travelling to the ISS.

Together with US astronaut Anil Menon, Adenot will leave the station Tuesday in a spacesuit weighing around 250kg to repair a high-speed communications antenna used to communicate with mission control in Houston, Texas.

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