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  • noun Plural form of moonwalker.

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Examples

  • The real tragedy is that the last surviving 9 moonwalkers may not live to see man land on the moon if there are budget fights in Congress.

    Remembering Apollo 11 and the Legacy of Apollo - NASA Watch 2009

  • Then five more landings, ten more moonwalkers and, in the decades since, nothing.

    Antiwar.com Blog 2009

  • As someone who has interviewed a dozen astronauts, including two moonwalkers, I still find it amazing that anyone believes former combat aviators and test pilots would allow themselves to serve as actors on a set, to be bossed around by a Stanley Kubrick type, and keep quiet about it for decades.

    Neal Thompson: 50 Years Later: The Alan Shepard Freedom 7 Flight Neal Thompson 2011

  • Then five more landings, ten more moonwalkers and, in the decades since, nothing.

    Space: The Final Caliphate « Antiwar.com Blog 2009

  • The original moonwalkers got an audience with the president at the White House today.

    CNN Transcript Jul 20, 2009 2009

  • And Dick Nixon, who was never really a supporter of the space program, but who saw its publicity value, got to congratulate the two moonwalkers by phone as they stood looking at our planet in space.

    40 Years after a truly huge achievement and we are ... where? 2009

  • And while the experience of walking on the Moon was shared by a precious few, the opinions of the moonwalkers are remarkably diverse so as to allow everyone to identify with what it must have been like to be there.

    NASA Watch: Keith Cowing: July 2009 Archives 2009

  • And while the experience of walking on the Moon was shared by a precious few, the opinions of the moonwalkers are remarkably diverse so as to allow everyone to identify with what it must have been like to be there.

    NASA Watch: Exploration: July 2009 Archives 2009

  • Only one of the 12 moonwalkers has admitted to serious personal problems.

    Crashing To Earth 2008

  • The wreaths were placed in a hilly, wooded section of the cemetery that has the graves of forgotten doughboys and GIs, as well as those of astronaut moonwalkers, Dr. Walter Reed and the general at Bastogne during the Battle of the Bulge who told the Nazi commander demanding his surrender "Nuts."

    Gift of wreaths touches nation 2006

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