Mercury/Gemini: The first space suits were modified U.S ... Custom-tailored for a single lunar mission, with boots made for moonwalking, Apollo-era suits were the first equipped with a life ...

Chief among those tasks was designing the first space suit that could sustain life on a natural satellite. Designers were required to come up with a suit that could create a tiny atmosphere for ...

On 18 March 1965 Soviet cosmonaut Alexei Leonov became the first person to leave a space capsule and ... colour for maximum propaganda effect), his suit ballooned when no longer constrained ...

They were wearing new spacesuits — the first time the company's suits were tested by humans in space. The astronauts ... California. They're made to be a single-piece garment with specialized ...