How come astronauts can still move around when they go … From the shiny silver of the Mercury suit to the orange "pumpkin suits" of shuttle crew, the suits have served as personal spacecraft, protecting explorers during launch and entry, while working on the International Space Station, or walking on the moon. There’s a lot more to come, but first, let’s get some rare details of the suit itself. Behind this little plastic patch houses the connection for life support. If outer space is a vacuum, how come the air pressure inside a space suit doesn't just inflate it into a person-sized balloon? Journalists also got a close-up view of the pressurized flight spacesuit that astronauts will wear inside the Crew Dragon. It's undeniably sleek. So here’s a bunch of Macro shots for your pleasure! Ever since Alan Shepard's history-making flight in 1961, NASA astronauts have relied on spacesuits to help them work and keep them safe. When this happens, one cool trick is to use our imaginations and climb into a big puffy space suit and then float up to the ceiling and into the sky. Most space suits operate at pressures below normal atmospheric pressure (14.7 lb/in 2, or 1 atm); the space shuttle cabin also operates at normal atmospheric pressure.The space suit used by shuttle astronauts operates at 4.3 lb/in 2, or 0.29 atm.Therefore, the cabin pressure of either the shuttle itself or an airlock must be reduced before an astronaut gets suited up for a spacewalk. NASA space suit engineer Kristine Davis wears a prototype of the new, adjustable xEMU suit. When we get space … SpaceX allowed us a rare opportunity to get up close and personal with their Crew Dragon Capsule and Spacesuit. Take a rare glimpse inside the space shuttle Atlantis just before NASA powered it down forever in 2011. ... the space agency also unveiled new orange crew suits for use inside … SPACE.com partner Robert Pearlman, editor of collectSPACE, snapped the photos. The upcoming sci-fi film "The Martian" features many real-life technologies being developed to help put boots on the Red Planet, but the sleek spacesuits showcased in … —Jack Beyer (@thejackbeyer) August 13, 2018.