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, 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.

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