extravehicular activity

extravehicular activity

English

Noun

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

1. Any activity done by an astronaut outside of a spacecraft etc; a spacewalk or moonwalk.
   • 2019 October 11, Vasilyeva, Nataliya; Marcia Dunn, “Alexei Leonov, 1st human to walk in space, dies in Moscow”, in AP News‎, 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.

Translations

work outside of spacecraft

Chinese: Mandarin: 艙外活動 (zh), 舱外活动 (zh) (cāngwài huódòng) Danish: please add this translation if you can Finnish: aluksen ulkopuolinen toiminta French: activité extravéhiculaire (fr) f, AEV f, EVA (fr) f, sortie extravéhiculaire f German: Außenbordeinsatz m Japanese: 船外活動 (せんがいかつどう, sengaikatsudō) Portuguese: atividade extraveicular f Russian: please add this translation if you can Spanish: please add this translation if you can