extravehicular activity

English

Noun

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

Any activity done by an astronaut outside of a spacecraft etc; a spacewalk or moonwalk.
- 2019 October 11, Nataliya Vasilyeva, 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／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

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