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.

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.

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, ...

SpaceX founder and CEO Elon Musk. Musk posted an image on Instagram of the new SpaceX space suit, and it's downright svelte compared to the bulky pressure suits astronauts typically wear for an EVA.

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 ...

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.

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 ...

U-2 flier wearing a pressurized space suit. Courtesy of U.S. Air Force When I flew last summer in a U-2 spy plane to above 70,000 feet, I was required to wear a bulky, claustrophobic 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.