spacewalker
Americannoun
plural
spacewalkersExample Sentences
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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
Three years later, the space shuttle Endeavour and a repair crew led by Story Musgrave — astronaut, pilot, surgeon, spacewalker and Zen gardener — rode to the rescue.
From New York Times • Apr. 24, 2015
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 Goodwin, Harold L. (Harold Leland)
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