The scene is in everyone's head.
November 23, 2022, the students are in the classroom, a physics lesson, and like others, Inès Mertz, 21, has her eyes glued to a computer screen.
She follows live the press conference given by the European Space Agency (ESA).
The moment is historic, the new promotion of astronauts will be announced.
Suddenly, Sophie Adenot appears, she is part of the team!
“I had tears in my eyes, remembers the young girl.
With my comrades, we rushed in the corridor in front of the gallery of the class of 2004, that of Sophie.
With the feeling that we were definitely in the right school!”
Propelled to the front of the stage, the 40-year-old pilot and lieutenant-colonel, also a graduate of MIT in Boston, becomes the second Frenchwoman after Claudie Haigneré to be able to rub shoulders with the stars.
A consecration for this past engineer, like Thomas Pesquet (class of 2001), on the benches of the Institute...
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