Overview
- Sophie Adenot will launch from Cape Canaveral on SpaceX’s Crew Dragon as part of Crew-12 with Jessica Meir, Jack Hathaway and Andrei Fediaev to join the ISS.
- Across roughly eight months in orbit, she is slated to carry out about 200 investigations and will be the only European on board during her stay.
- Her ChlorISS experiment will grow Arabidopsis in microgravity while about 260,000 students follow the same protocol on Earth across some 4,500 schools.
- CNES says 1.2 million seeds are being supplied, including 300,000 produced by an agricultural school in Saintes, with the flight batch riding Cygnus NG-24 in April for planting to begin in May.
- Mission details highlight a collective-themed patch, tightly scripted daily schedules with mandatory exercise, and celebratory meals created by chef Anne‑Sophie Pic alongside limited personal items and a curated playlist.