The word spacewalk has appeared in 37 articles on NYTimes.com in the past year, including on March 17 in “NASA Astronauts’ Nine-Month Orbital Odyssey Ends in a Splashdown” by Kenneth Chang and Thomas Fuller:
According to a summary published by NASA, astronauts at the space station, which orbits about 250 miles above the Earth, carried out a variety of tasks on the station, including maintenance work and nearly a thousand hours of scientific research.
That included a spacewalk by Ms. Williams and Mr. Wilmore to swab the outside of the space station to see if Earth microbes could survive and maybe even thrive in space.
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