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How to use airlock in a sentence

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The ramp began to slide back inside the side of the ship and the airlock door automatically swung shut.
The job will set the stage to restore use of the airlock as a base for spacewalks using U.S. spacesuits.
The main computer told him the airlock was in place and was depressurising.
He hit the button to open the hatch, which hissed and retracted back into the bulkhead, allowing him to step into the airlock.
As he smashed his fist the fifth time, the airlock depressurised, and a gush of air entered the airlock.
The door to the chamber slowly opened, just as the airlock door began to do the same.
For their part, Russian engineers believe a small air leak from their airlock hatch could be cause.
With a secure airlock established between the two ships, the Scout transferred over to the derelict.
The airlock near the door hissed open as the transport completed its docking procedure.
The crew activated it before leaving the airlock and stowed it on the outside of the docking compartment.
The outer door of the airlock slid to one side when the air pressure in the airlock exactly matched that outside it, of course.
The shelters work by inflating quickly and have an airlock and pressure system which keeps out contamination.
During that flight, Leonov performed the first space walk, leaving the spacecraft through an inflatable airlock for several minutes.
He arrived at the briefing room, and the larger airlock doors, not pressurized at the moment, whooshed open.
Space Shuttle Atlantis will launch July 12 to carry a new airlock to the International Space Station.
Their work started about an hour behind schedule because of trouble with an airlock.
I have no memory of climbing into my space suit and double-checking all the seals before I must have vented the airlock.
We came to a stop in a position that put our shuttle's passengers compartment outer hatch ten feet away from their airlock.
At that moment, a feeling tickled the back of his mind, and without thinking he slammed his faceplate down and dove for the airlock.
By the time they closed the inner hatch of the airlock the blood-red droplights had come on.
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He was dirty and unshaven inside the unit, sick of iron rations pushed through the airlock, stiff and sore with exertion.
In the same place was a small airlock for jettisoning purposes and for taking in more supplies.
He went in the airlock while Brawn stared, for once startled out of moodiness.
Ekstrohm smiled, and followed the captain through the airlock with only a glance at the lapel gauge on his coverall.
Everything was ready, except climbing aboard, closing the airlock and pressing the firing pin.
The skiff, designed as sheering had said for short hops, could not accommodate the extra weight and bulk of an airlock.
Lura and a half dozen of the crew were passed through the airlock and joined them.
They came down the slope and approached the southern airlock of ultra vires.
Why don't you jump out the window, Roger, remembering to shut the airlock after you?
They climbed up the ladder and said nothing as the airlock went through its cycle and the antibacterial spray covered them.
Then he opened the airlock door, hating the fact that he shook and trembled.
Shall one of us get in the airlock, or shall we bring it in with an attractor?
Tolto dragged him in to the safety of the airlock opening, where he could watch.
A short time later, they stepped out of the airlock onto the ice field of the frozen world.
Last, there was the problem of building the airlock in one of the rills.
He stood in the airlock door for long minutes, staring angrily about.
She entered the airlock and in a few moments was again inside the ship.
He grabbed for his aspirator, then tried to reach the airlock.
Jarvis and Leroy went through the airlock out to the grey plain.
Finishing the last airlock, Aron then walked through the post.
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