French astronaut Adenot takes part in second spacewalk

French astronaut Sophie Adenot began a second spacewalk at the International Space Station on Tuesday, as she and NASA astronaut Anil Menon were set to continue work on a space-to-ground communications antenna. Adenot, a European Space Agency astronaut, was scheduled to help Menon retrieve and install a spare antenna o

After her spacewalk on 18 August, when she became the first French woman to "walk" in space, Sophie Adenot left the ISS again to replace an aerial.

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