Astronauts in spacesuits prepared for human spaceflight

Human Spacesuits

Each one a personal spaceship — 33 suits across 10 agencies · 1961–present

The Lineage

Every suit descends from another — 29 design lineages across six decades. The orange linkis the one that crossed borders: Sokol's DNA in the Shenzhou suit. Scroll →

Positioned by year of introduction · green dot = active · yellow = in development · tap any suit for its full story.

Total Suits

EVA Capable

Active Right Now

Years of Lineage

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.

🇺🇸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.

🇷🇺Soviet Space Program·Voskhod 2

Berkut

The suit Alexei Leonov wore for the first human spacewalk — a near-fatal 12 minutes that changed history.

Gemini G4C

The suit Ed White wore for America's first spacewalk — proving humans could live and work outside their spacecraft.

🇺🇸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.

🇺🇸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.

🇺🇸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.

🇷🇺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.

🇺🇸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.

🇷🇺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.

🇺🇸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.

🇷🇺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.

🇷🇺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.

🇺🇸NASA·Space Shuttle; ISS

Extravehicular Mobility Unit

The defining American EVA suit — protecting astronauts on 280+ spacewalks since 1981, 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

Launch Entry Suit spacesuit — full suit view

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.

🇷🇺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.

🇺🇸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.

🇷🇺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.

🇨🇳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.

🇨🇳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.

🇺🇸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.

🇷🇺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.

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.

🇺🇸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

Feitian EVA Suit (2nd Generation) spacesuit — full suit view

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.

🇬🇧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

Blue Origin New Shepard Suit spacesuit — full suit view

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

Orion Crew Survival System spacesuit — full suit view

IVA

🇺🇸NASA·Artemis / Orion spacecraft

Orion Crew Survival System

The suit that carried 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 lunar surface EVA (xEVAS) — first surface use now Artemis IV (~2028)

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. First surface use is now Artemis IV (~2028).

🇺🇸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

🧑‍🚀No official imagery yet

EVA

🇨🇳CNSA·China Crewed Lunar Exploration (first crewed landing now stated 2029 or 2030)

Wangyu Lunar EVA Suit

China's lunar surface EVA suit — officially named 'Wangyu' in February 2025, fully unveiled in September 2024, and supporting China's first crewed Moon landing now stated for 2029 or 2030 as part of the International Lunar Research Station program.

2023–present

development

SpaceX EVA Suit spacesuit — full suit view

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 — now without a scheduled crewed flight after Starliner-1 was converted to uncrewed cargo.