moonwalker
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- noun
- /ˈmuːnˌwɔːkər/
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astronauta
- Buzz Aldrin, a famous moonwalker, followed Neil Armstrong onto the Moon in 1969.
- Apollo moonwalker
Examples
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Each of the five orbiters was dispatched to map the landscape in high resolution and assist in charting where best to set down Apollo moonwalkers and open up the lunar surface to expanded human operations.
Blog text (9) -
Neil Armstrong was the first moonwalker to step onto the lunar surface during the Apollo 11 mission.
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We are locked on to your signal, moonwalker.
Fiction book (1995) -
The first moonwalker.
Blog text (29) -
PHOTO (COLOR): Besides being a major research facility, the 64-meter radio telescope at Parkes relayed signals from the Apollo II moonwalkers.
Academic text (2002) -
The late moonwalker was a Navy veteran with combat flying experience in the Korean War and could have been buried with full honors at Arlington National Cemetery, as Apollo 12 commander Pete Conrad, also a Navy vet, was in 1999.
Blog text (23) -
Published in 2005, it's about the author tracking down and interviewing in some detail the surviving moonwalkers (or, in the case of Neil Armstrong, failing—though he did exchange a word at an event and got some emails).
Blog text (20) -
The historic moment when a moonwalker left footprints on the Moon's surface is celebrated every year.
How Historic
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
Moonwalker is made from moon and walker, literally a 'walker on the Moon'. It came into use after people first walked on the Moon, so a moonwalker means someone who has walked on the Moon.