How to Use extravehicular in a Sentence

extravehicular

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• Of course, to ensure the crew’s safety during extravehicular activities, the suit also has added seals and pressure valves.
  — Abby Montanez, Robb Report, 6 May 2024
• The suit also has added features such asa seals and pressure valves to support extravehicular activities.
  — Abby Montanez, Robb Report, 8 Aug. 2024
• During the 4-hour, 10 minute extravehicular activity, both astronauts attached tethers to their suits and worked with the cradle that supported the Tracking and Data Relay Satellite, the first of its kind to launch.
  — Chris Ciaccia, Fox News, 29 May 2018
• Neil Armstrong took this photograph of Buzz Aldrin during the Apollo 11 extravehicular activity on the moon.
  — Michelle L.d. Hanlon, Discover Magazine, 20 Feb. 2019
• Then, the crew receives a realistic task that requires them to slip on their spacesuits for extravehicular activity (EVA).
  — Sarah Scoles, WIRED, 25 June 2019
• Rubio will serve as extravehicular crew member 1 and will wear a suit with red stripes, while Cassada will wear an unmarked white suit as extravehicular crew member 2.
  — Ashley Strickland, CNN, 22 Dec. 2022
• All four crew will be wearing new extravehicular activity suits since the entire Crew Dragon will be vented of its atmosphere and subjected to the vacuum of space.
  — Richard Tribou Orlando Sentinel (tns), arkansasonline.com, 1 Sep. 2024
• The problem begins when the astronaut's space suit is pressurized for a spacewalk (more technically called an extravehicular activity, or EVA), which makes the flexible fabric of the gloves hard and stiff.
  — Eliza Strickland, Discover Magazine, 14 Sep. 2010
• Unlike other suits the company has produced, like the extravehicular mobility unity (EMU) and the Apollo suit, these new spacesuits are built with adaptability in mind.
  — Elizabeth Howell, Discover Magazine, 3 Sep. 2019
• China this week revealed that two of its astronauts had conducted a secretive space walk around the Tiangong space station, marking the second extravehicular operation over the last three months.
  — Caitlin McFall, Fox News, 3 Mar. 2023
• The company spent about two years designing the first generation of this extravehicular activity spacesuit, an upgrade from its current flight suit.
  — Eric Berger, Ars Technica, 7 May 2024
• Astronaut Buzz Aldrin is pictured during the Apollo 11 extravehicular activity on the moon.
  — K. N. Smith, Discover Magazine, 28 July 2016
• And on top of that, future astronauts will need more oomph for more—and more difficult—extravehicular physical activity than today’s explorers do, to stay alive and functional on another world.
  — Sarah Scoles, Wired, 9 Nov. 2021
• The wearable robots attached to the space suit assist an astronaut in performing extravehicular activities (EVAs).
  — IEEE Spectrum, 16 June 2023
• SpaceX has unveiled its extravehicular activity (EVA) suit for spacewalks.
  — Kate Irwin, PCMAG, 6 May 2024
• The suits used for extravehicular activities are basically personal spacecraft and cost over $10 million dollars each.
  — Daniel Oberhaus, WIRED, 11 June 2019
• Spacewalks are often referred to as EVAs, or extravehicular activities.
  — Ashley Strickland, CNN, 26 May 2021
• Controlling a drone could help an astronaut avoid danger while conducting an extravehicular activity (EVA).
  — Jennifer Leman, Popular Mechanics, 15 Apr. 2020
• The pair’s first extravehicular activity—as astronauts call such trips outside their spacecraft—turned up mostly breccias, conglomerate rocks created by the meteorite impacts that actually formed most lunar mountains.
  — Mike Bezemek, Smithsonian Magazine, 14 June 2023
• The pressurizes suit uses 100 percent oxygen to allow for immediate extravehicular activity that won’t force astronauts to combat pressure sickness.
  — Richard Tribou, orlandosentinel.com, 14 Oct. 2019
• Lunar spacesuits were decidedly unique from even EVA (extravehicular activity) suits.
  — Katie Liu, Discover Magazine, 29 July 2024

Last Updated: 12 Dec 2024