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spacewalker

American  
[spays-wawk-er] / ˈspeɪsˌwɔk ər /

noun

spacewalkers plural
  1. an astronaut who carries out a spacewalk.


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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

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

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)

Before tackling the arm installation work, the spacewalkers tossed a set of mini satellites overboard, one by one, in a radio technology experiment.

From Seattle Times Jul. 21, 2022

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

The First Untethered Spacewalk February 7, 1984 Until the space shuttle Challenger’s STS-41B mission, spacewalkers were tethered to their spaceships by a long cord.

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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