Adenot returns to Earth Recovery after 235 ISS days

Oct 8

France 2 reports Sophie Adenot's successful Pacific splashdown off California on October 8 at 17:34 and extraction from Dragon at 18:32 after a reported 235 days aboard the ISS and a return journey of more than 27 hours. Footage shows her seated and visibly tired. The report explains her daily exercise, muscle loss, increased height and the balance rehabilitation ahead, with Jean-Pierre Haigneré recalling his own difficult return and Nicolas Chateauneuf explaining inner-ear readaptation. Archival Adenot remarks include readiness for a spacewalk and anticipation of a Breton galette. The European duration-record claim and figures remain those of this source.

France 2 and ABC report the same successful Crew-12 Dragon splashdown in the Pacific off California on October 8 after a stated 235-day ISS stay, followed by extraction and recovery. France 2 focuses on Sophie Adenot, gives 17:34 for splashdown and 18:32 for extraction in its Paris-time context, and calls the stay a European female-astronaut record. ABC places the splashdown near Los Angeles and describes the four returnees as two NASA astronauts, a cosmonaut and a European Space Agency astronaut. It shows recovery footage and airs Jessica Meir saying they are excited to be back on Earth. This is the completed four-person splashdown, distinct from their October 7 ISS departure. France 2's October 10 follow-up revisits Adenot's Thursday return and shows her unsteady on arriving in Europe, supported by two doctors. She describes the physical return as difficult, and the report says three weeks of intensive rehabilitation will follow. Her later first public remarks are also recorded as a distinct October 10 occurrence; this follow-up does not change the October 8 splashdown date.