With less than three months to go before her departure for the International Space Station (ISS), scheduled from 15 February with three other astronauts, the "countdown (...) is more than underway," says French astronaut Sophie Adenot. The programme, "which was already intense until now, is intensifying even further," says the 43-year-old engineer and former test pilot, who came to Toulouse to present the scientific experiments prepared by the French National Centre for Space Studies (CNES) that she will conduct aboard the ISS. IMAGES AND SOUNDBITES