pressure suit

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Mr Aldrin spent the majority of the six-day journey in space wearing the inflight jacket, changing out of it only mid-way through to swap into a pressure suit for stepping onto the lunar surface itself.

From BBC • Jul. 26, 2022

The mannequin is outfitted in the same blue pressure suit that future Starliner passengers will wear and includes a suite of sensors that will collect data about the flight.

From The Verge • May 19, 2022

What would your concerns be if you were building a homemade space suit or pressure suit?

From Slate • Jun. 30, 2021

Although, at around 0.7% of Earth’s sea-level pressure, any on-foot exploration of Mars would require a full pressure suit of some form.

From Scientific American • Feb. 2, 2020

I hooked one end of the fifty-foot umbilical line to the Gemini’s oxygen supply and the other end to a chestpack, which in turn was hooked by two hoses to my pressure suit.

From "Flying to the Moon: An Astronaut's Story" by Michael Collins