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EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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A vibration that Ace had hardly been aware of ceased: the spacewalk jets closing down automatically.
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Ace switched on the spacewalk jets and launched herself through the widening yawn of the doors.
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During shuttle spacewalks, pilots can maneuver their spacecraft quickly to chase an astronaut whose security line has snapped.
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During the spacewalk , the hatches between Atlantis and Mir were closed for the first time since the docking.
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The spacewalk was the last of the major goals for the Atlantis crew during its docked operations.
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The last time astronauts did a spacewalk from an aerial outpost was in 1974, when Skylab was operating.
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The new schedule calls for five spacewalks rather than the three originally planned for a mission lasting 11 days rather than eight.
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The time is rapidly approaching when somebody has to do a spacewalk around this station.