AI-generated realistic reconstruction made with Exas: a crew capsule floating after splashdown. An imagined scene, not a photograph of Crew-12 or an exact technical model.

Sophie Adenot is back from her first mission aboard the International Space Station. In a report published on 10 October 2026, the European Space Agency said she had returned to Europe after Crew-12 splashed down on 8 October.

Her εpsilon spaceflight lasted 237 days, 5 hours and 18 minutes. ESA identifies it as the longest single spaceflight by a European astronaut. Adenot also completed three spacewalks, spending a combined 19 hours and 42 minutes outside the station.

During the mission, her European experiments covered subjects including health research, biology, materials science and fluid physics. ESA said her next steps would include rehabilitation and follow-up work with the European Astronaut Centre team in Cologne. The report describes the mission’s activities; it does not establish results from those experiments.

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