Human Spacesuits
33 suits across 10 agencies · 1961–present
33
Total Suits
17
EVA Capable
11
Currently Active
3
In Development
10
Agencies
65
Years Covered
Showing 33 of 33 suits
IVA
🇷🇺Soviet Space Program·Vostok
SK-1
The world's first operational spacesuit — worn by Yuri Gagarin on humanity's first trip to space.
1961–1963
retired
Weight
20 kg
IVA
🇺🇸NASA·Project Mercury
Mercury Pressure Suit
The first American spacesuit — derived from a Navy high-altitude pressure suit and worn on all six crewed Mercury flights.
1961–1963
retired
Weight
10 kg
EVA
🇷🇺Soviet Space Program·Voskhod 2
Berkut
The suit Alexei Leonov wore for the first human spacewalk — a near-fatal 12 minutes that changed history.
1965–1965
retired
Max EVA
~45 min
Weight
41.5 kg
IVA/EVA
🇺🇸NASA·Gemini
Gemini G4C
The suit Ed White wore for America's first spacewalk — proving humans could live and work outside their spacecraft.
1965–1966
retired
Max EVA
~2 hours
Weight
15.4 kg
IVA
🇺🇸NASA·Gemini (IVA missions 3–7)
Gemini G3C
The Gemini IVA baseline suit — worn by John Young and Gus Grissom on Gemini 3, the first American crewed Gemini mission.
1965–1966
retired
Weight
7.3 kg
IVA
🇺🇸NASA·Gemini 7 (14-day endurance mission)
Gemini G5C
The modified soft suit that let Borman and Lovell survive 14 days in a cramped capsule — they could remove it mid-flight, making Gemini 7 the longest American spaceflight to that date.
1965–1965
retired
Weight
6.8 kg
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IVA
🇺🇸NASA·Apollo Block I
Apollo A1C
The suit worn in the Apollo 1 fire — its failure triggered a complete redesign and made spacesuits fire-resistant forever.
1966–1967
cancelled
Weight
11 kg
EVA
🇷🇺Soviet Space Program·Soviet Lunar Program (N1/L3)
Krechet-94
The Soviet answer to Apollo's A7L — the lunar EVA suit that would have walked on the Moon if the N1 rocket had succeeded.
1967–1974
cancelled
Max EVA
10 hours
Weight
90 kg
IVA/EVA
🇺🇸NASA·Apollo (Missions 7–14), Skylab, ASTP
Apollo A7L
The suit Neil Armstrong wore on the Moon — 21 layers of engineering that carried humanity to its greatest achievement.
1968–1975
retired
Max EVA
7 hours
Weight
34.5 kg
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EVA
🇷🇺Soviet Space Program·Soyuz (crew transfer)
Yastreb
The first purpose-built Soviet EVA suit — used for the only crewed spacecraft-to-spacecraft transfer by spacewalk in history.
1969–1969
retired
Max EVA
~2 hours
Weight
22 kg
IVA/EVA
🇺🇸NASA·Apollo J-missions (15–17), Skylab
Apollo A7LB
The suit Gene Cernan wore on the last Moon walk in 1972 — the most capable Apollo suit, designed for driving the Lunar Roving Vehicle.
1971–1975
retired
Max EVA
7 hours
Weight
35.4 kg
🧑🚀
EVA
🇷🇺Soviet Space Program·Salyut 6 / Salyut 7
Orlan-D
The first Orlan — the foundational EVA suit that established Russia's semi-rigid rear-entry architecture still in use today.
1977–1984
retired
Max EVA
3 hours
Weight
73.5 kg
IVA
🇷🇺Roscosmos / Soviet Space Program·Soyuz; Shenzhou (licensed)
Sokol KV-2
The longest-continuously-flying crewed spacesuit in history — 45+ years of active Soyuz service since 1980.
1980–present
active
Weight
10 kg
EVA
🇺🇸NASA·Space Shuttle; ISS
Extravehicular Mobility Unit
The defining American EVA suit — 400+ ISS spacewalks, Hubble repairs, and decades of orbital construction in a single iconic white suit.
1982–present
active
Max EVA
8 hours + 30 min reserve
Weight
49.4 kg
IVA
🇺🇸NASA·Space Shuttle (STS-26 through STS-63, 1988–1994)
Launch Entry Suit
The bright orange suit rushed into service after the Challenger disaster — a partial-pressure emergency suit that gave shuttle crews their first real pressure protection since Apollo.
1988–1994
retired
Weight
9 kg
IVA
🇷🇺Soviet Space Program / Roscosmos·Buran Space Shuttle Program
Strizh
The Soviet Buran's rescue suit — designed for emergency ejection from the shuttle at altitudes up to 30 km, using a K-36 ejection seat system unique in spaceflight history.
1988–1993
retired
Weight
15 kg
IVA
🇺🇸NASA·Space Shuttle (STS-64 through STS-135)
Advanced Crew Escape Suit
The orange 'pumpkin suit' worn on every Shuttle flight from 1994–2011 — the suit Columbia's crew wore when the orbiter broke apart.
1994–2011
retired
Weight
15 kg
EVA
🇷🇺Roscosmos·ISS Russian Segment (Phase I–II, 1998–2009)
Orlan-M
The Orlan variant that assembled the ISS — Russia's primary EVA suit for the entire initial station construction phase.
1998–2009
retired
Max EVA
7 hours
Weight
112 kg
IVA
🇨🇳CNSA·Shenzhou; Tiangong CSS
Shenzhou IVA Suit
The suit Yang Liwei wore when China became the third nation to independently send a human to space — based on Russia's Sokol KV-2.
2003–present
active
Weight
10 kg
EVA
🇨🇳CNSA·Shenzhou 7; Tiangong-1/2
Feitian EVA Suit (1st Generation)
The suit Zhai Zhigang wore waving a Chinese flag on China's first spacewalk — making China the third nation to achieve EVA.
2008–2021
retired
Max EVA
4 hours
Weight
120 kg
EVA
🇺🇸NASA·Advanced Exploration Systems (AES) — next-gen EVA prototype
NASA Z-2
NASA's 2014 experimental prototype — the public voted on its outer shell design. A testing bed for constant-volume joints and planetary surface mobility that fed directly into AxEMU.
2014–2016
retired
Weight
48 kg
EVA
🇷🇺Roscosmos·ISS (Russian Segment)
Orlan-MKS
Russia's current ISS spacesuit — the most advanced Orlan ever built, with fully domestic Russian avionics and automated thermal control.
2017–present
active
Max EVA
7 hours
Weight
110 kg
IVA
🇮🇳ISRO·Gaganyaan
Gaganyaan Vyomanaut Suit
India's first indigenously designed spacesuit — the lightest IVA suit in development at just 5 kg, for the Gaganyaan crewed mission targeting 2027.
2018–present
development
Weight
5 kg
IVA
🇺🇸SpaceX·Crew Dragon (Commercial Crew)
SpaceX Dragon IVA Suit
SpaceX's sleek one-piece suit — the first entirely in-house designed commercial crew suit, with a touchscreen-compatible glove and integrated 3D-printed helmet.
2020–present
active
EVA
🇨🇳CNSA·CSS Tiangong Space Station
Feitian EVA Suit (2nd Generation)
China's current Tiangong EVA suit — with 8-hour duration and 15+ EVA reusability, it supports all Tiangong station spacewalks.
2021–present
active
Max EVA
8 hours
Weight
120 kg
IVA
🇬🇧Virgin Galactic·VSS Unity (SpaceShipTwo commercial suborbital)
Virgin Galactic Future Astronaut Suit
The light blue suit that carried Richard Branson and paying customers to the edge of space — the first commercial spacesuit designed by a fashion-forward consumer brand partnership.
2021–present
active
IVA
🇺🇸Blue Origin·New Shepard (commercial suborbital)
Blue Origin New Shepard Suit
The white suit Jeff Bezos wore on Blue Origin's first crewed New Shepard flight — clean and functional, worn by commercial passengers reaching 107 km altitude.
2021–present
active
IVA
🇺🇸NASA·Artemis / Orion spacecraft
Orion Crew Survival System
The suit that will carry the first crew around the Moon since 1972 — orange like ACES, but with major mobility gains for long-duration lunar transit.
2022–present
active
EVA
🇺🇸Axiom Space·Artemis III (first crewed Moon landing since 1972)
AxEMU
The suit that will return humans to the Moon — the first lunar surface EVA suit since Apollo 17 in 1972, with Prada co-designing its outer materials.
2022–present
development
Max EVA
8+ hours
🧑🚀
EVA
🇺🇸Collins Aerospace·xEVAS (ISS next-gen EVA services)
Collins xEMU
The cancelled next-gen ISS EVA suit — Collins Aerospace won the NASA contract but withdrew in 2024, leaving Axiom as sole commercial EVA suit provider.
2022–2024
cancelled
🧑🚀
EVA
🇨🇳CNSA·China Crewed Lunar Exploration (targeting 2030)
Chinese Lunar EVA Suit
China's next-generation lunar surface EVA suit — revealed in concept form in 2023, targeting China's 2030 crewed Moon landing as part of the International Lunar Research Station program.
2023–present
development
EVA
🇺🇸SpaceX·Polaris Program; Starship (future)
SpaceX EVA Suit
The suit worn for history's first commercial spacewalk — Polaris Dawn's September 2024 EVA showed that private companies could design, build, and operate EVA suits independently.
2024–present
active
Max EVA
~2 hours (umbilical-dependent)
IVA
🇺🇸Boeing·CST-100 Starliner (Boeing Commercial Crew)
Boeing Blue
Boeing's lighter-than-ACES suit worn by Butch Wilmore and Suni Williams on the 9-month-long unplanned ISS stay.
2024–present
active
Weight
9 kg