spacewalker
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spacewalkers
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Artemyev, the station’s commander, is now a six-time spacewalker.
From Seattle Times ● Jul. 21, 2022
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
He also circled the world twice as a tethered spacewalker.
From New York Times ● Jan. 16, 2017
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
White enjoyed using the gun, but subsequent spacewalkers reported that it was difficult to operate, so it was rarely used after the Gemini program.
From Scientific American ● Mar. 18, 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 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
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