A Look Back at U.S. Space Suits
NASA is developing its next generation space suit, here's what came before it.
Gordon Cooper, one of NASA's seven original astronauts, poses in his Mercury flight suit. The suit, developed in 1959 by B.F. Goodrich, was a modified version of a U.S. Navy high-altitude jet aircraft outfit.
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