spacewalk
IPA: spˈeɪswɑk
noun
- Any activity by an astronaut outside of a spacecraft or space station in space; extravehicular activity.
verb
- To perform a spacewalk.
space walk
IPA: spˈeɪswˈɔk
noun
- Any activity performed by an astronaut outside of a space vehicle in space.
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Examples of "spacewalk" in Sentences
Examples of "space-walk" in Sentences
- After rising to an altitude of around 100,000ft, a webcam caught their ‘space-walk’ for posterity before the helium balloon burst.
- After rising to an altitude of around 100,000ft, a webcam caught their 'space-walk' for posterity before the helium balloon burst.
- If I released myself from the wall mounts, as I would have to do on a real space-walk, I would collapse under the 300-pound weight.
- For example, Astrobiologist Nathalie Cabrol took astronaut Scott Parazynski, a space-walk specialist on the shuttle Atlantis in 1997, with her on a climb up Licancabur, a 19,522-foot Bolivian volcano.
- The STS-5 space-walk, which was to have been the first from a shuttle, had just been a demonstration exercise and was ultimately canceled for a suit malfunction, but in future missions spacewalks would be essential for mission success.
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