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extravehicular activity

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extravehicular activity [¦ek·strə·və′hik·yə·lər ak′tiv·əd·ē]
(aerospace engineering)
Activity conducted outside a spacecraft during space flight.


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prepares to deploy the Early Apollo Scientific Experiments Package during the Apollo 11 lunar surface extravehicular activity on July 20, 1969.
According to Qi, astronauts carried out extravehicular activity during the Shenzhou VII mission last year and scientists are now working on the challenge of space docking.
The prime candidate for carrying out the walk andndash; known formally as an Extravehicular Activity (EVA) andndash; is Zhai Zhigang, a 42-year-old colonel in the Chinese air force.
 
 
 
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