extravehicular
adjective
ex·tra·ve·hic·u·lar
ˌek-strə-vē-ˈhi-kyə-lər 
: taking place outside a vehicle (such as a spacecraft)
extravehicular activity
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Spacesuit stowage — Flight engineer Zena Cardman photo-documented and prepared for packing components from the station's extravehicular mobility units (EMUs, or spacesuits) that are slated to return to Earth on Russia's Soyuz MS-27 spacecraft.
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Robert Z. Pearlman, Space.com, 21 Nov. 2025
On Sunday June 5, 1966, at 5:30 a.m. Houston time, two days after launch, Cernan began his spacewalk, or, what NASA preferred to call in the agency’s arid argot, his extravehicular activity—or EVA.
—Jeffrey Kluger, Time, 11 Nov. 2025
In 1984: Cosmonaut Svetlana Savitskaya became the first woman to do a spacewalk, conducting an extravehicular activity for 3 hours and 35 minutes outside the Salyut 7 space station.
—Lorenzino Estrada, AZCentral.com, 26 July 2025
While in space, the astronauts will conduct science and application experiments, install a space debris protection device, as well as extravehicular payload and equipment, and perform recovery tasks, according to the agency.
—Sophia Saifi, CNN Money, 24 Apr. 2025
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Robert Z. Pearlman, Space.com, 21 Nov. 2025
On Sunday June 5, 1966, at 5:30 a.m. Houston time, two days after launch, Cernan began his spacewalk, or, what NASA preferred to call in the agency’s arid argot, his extravehicular activity—or EVA.
—Jeffrey Kluger, Time, 11 Nov. 2025
In 1984: Cosmonaut Svetlana Savitskaya became the first woman to do a spacewalk, conducting an extravehicular activity for 3 hours and 35 minutes outside the Salyut 7 space station.
—Lorenzino Estrada, AZCentral.com, 26 July 2025
While in space, the astronauts will conduct science and application experiments, install a space debris protection device, as well as extravehicular payload and equipment, and perform recovery tasks, according to the agency.
—Sophia Saifi, CNN Money, 24 Apr. 2025
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“Extravehicular.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/extravehicular. Accessed 29 Nov. 2025.
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extravehicular
adjective
ex·tra·ve·hic·u·lar
ˌek-strə-vē-ˈhik-yə-lər
: taking place outside a vehicle (as a spacecraft)
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