extravehicular activity

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Noun

extravehicular activity (countable and uncountable, plural extravehicular activities) (abbreviated as EVA)

  1. Any activity done by an astronaut outside of a spacecraft etc.
    • 2019 October 11, Nataliya Vasilyeva, Marcia Dunn, “Alexei Leonov, 1st human to walk in space, dies in Moscow”, in AP News‎[1], archived from the original on 24 August 2022:
      “His venture into the vacuum of space began the history of extra-vehicular activity that makes today’s Space Station maintenance possible,” NASA said on Twitter.

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  • intravehicular activity
  • IVA

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