spacewalker
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spacewalker (plural spacewalkers)
- An astronaut engaging in a space walk or other activity outside the spacecraft.
- 2007 August 16, Kenneth Chang, “Shuttle Crew Is Told to Study for Repairs, as NASA Wavers”, in New York Times[1]:
- NASA has spacewalkers periodically look at their gloves, since the discovery of a cut in a glove used by an astronaut during the last shuttle mission.