spacewalker
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spacewalkers
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But he could have lost the ability to communicate with fellow spacewalker Denis Matveev, 39, and the controllers.
From BBC ● Aug. 18, 2022
Wang is the first Chinese woman to board the Tiangong space station, and is also expected to become the China’s first female spacewalker.
From Seattle Times ● Oct. 16, 2021
Grissom’s crewmates for Apollo 1 were thirty-six-year-old Ed White, the first American spacewalker and already a national hero, and thirty-one-year-old Roger Chaffee, a member of the 1963 group of astronauts.
From Salon ● Mar. 24, 2019
The pairs of images that Eicher and May include show everything from cosmonaut Alexei Leonov, the first spacewalker, in 1965, to the Apollo 12 lunar module Intrepid flying insect-like above the Moon’s surface in 1969.
From Nature ● Nov. 6, 2018
I served with him at Marsport, and he's a real tough spacewalker in a fight.
From Rip Foster in Ride the Gray Planet by Harold L. (Harold Leland) Goodwin
Today, two astronauts will be conducting a fairly standard spacewalk on the outside of the International Space Station, but the pair of spacewalkers is a bit unusual.
From The Verge ● Jul. 21, 2022
Five years ago: Astronauts Mike Fincke and Gregory Chamitoff made history as the final spacewalkers of NASA’s 30-year shuttle program, completing construction of the International Space Station with the smooth addition of an extension pole.
From Seattle Times ● May 26, 2016
Once that’s complete, the spacewalkers will have routed nearly 800 feet of power and data lines, all of it needed for future American crew capsules.
From Washington Times ● Mar. 1, 2015
Once that's complete, the spacewalkers will have routed nearly 800 feet of power and data lines, all of it needed for future American crew capsules.
From US News ● Mar. 1, 2015
"The spacewalkers also were instructed to take detailed photographs of the electrical connectors mated earlier for additional review."
From Scientific American ● Dec. 28, 2013
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