Real space suits of the sort used to work outside the ISS or for walking on the Moon are a very different affair. They’re more like miniature spaceships with arms and legs.

Costume designers built on that foundation of real space suits and incorporated inspiration from other science fiction classics like Star Wars and The Black Hole, ...

Real space suits are designed to work in zero gravity, meaning they’re too expensive and too heavy to use at the NASA-funded Mars simulation mission in Hawaii.

It’s funny because real space suits almost never have lights in the helmet. [They’re] a totally a movie trope because you have to see the actors. There are almost no lights on any NASA suit.

Importantly, this is not a mockup of what a real space suit would look like. It's the real thing. SpaceX has tested the suit at two times vacuum pressure without any issue.

These days, Gilman spends more of his time designing real space suits. Sometimes, he says, he enjoys that more. But whether he's working on a project for the real world or fantasy — NASA or ...

Kurt's key takeaways. It’s clear that the EVA suit is more than just a new set of threads for the stars. With the Polaris Dawn mission on the horizon, we’re not just preparing to watch ...