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  • Check out astronauts' most daring moments outside the safety of spacecrafts to see some of the best free-floating and space-walking ever to take place miles and miles from the surface of the earth.

    NASA Astronauts' Most Daring Spacewalks The Huffington Post News Editors 2011

  • Thornton has described space-walking as akin to "a three-dimensional air hockey game," the release says.

    Space: A three-dimensional air hockey game 2010

  • Through the power of IMAX® 3D, Hubble 3D will enable movie-goers to journey through distant galaxies to explore the grandeur and mysteries of our celestial surroundings, and accompany space-walking astronauts as they attempt the most difficult and important tasks in NASA's history.

    Filmstalker: IMAX: Hubble 3D trailer online 2010

  • Though small, such debris could kill a space-walking astronaut instantly.

    Space Shuttle Discovery Pushes Space Station Out Of Path Of Space Debris | Impact Lab 2009

  • Bits of spent rocket boosters, old exploded satellites and tools dropped by space-walking astronauts are just some of the trash racing along in the near-vacuum of space.

    A Cosmic Question: How to Get Rid 2009

  • He and his space-walking partner, Ron Garan, are out there attaching antennas and cameras and removing all those restraints and so forth, to get the Kibo module up and running as a fully functional laboratory.

    CNN Transcript Jun 5, 2008 2008

  • Drumroll, please: now, at last, almost five years after it sidled into earth's orbit, and one year after space-walking astronauts surgically repaired its myopia, the Hubble Space Telescope is finally snaring images from near the beginning of time.

    Postcards From The Edge 2008

  • Mike Fossum and his space-walking partner, Ron Garan, have been out there now for about an hour and a half.

    CNN Transcript Jun 3, 2008 2008

  • HARRIS: Two space-walking shuttle astronauts are installing a new addition to the international space station today.

    CNN Transcript Aug 11, 2007 2007

  • Plus in space no one can hear you scream ... which means a woman could be in labor for hours before her space-walking husband even noticed (really not THAT much different from life here on Earth).

    Queers in Space rabid1st 2004

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