With the news that NASA had awarded a contract to Oceaneering International Inc., for the design, development, and production of a new spacesuit system, dubbed the constellation spacesuit, for use during our next foray into manned planetoid-hopping I thought it would be an opportune moment to offer you, my most beloved space cadets, a round-up of spacesuit-related linkage from across the far reaches of the internet. Suit up and see below.
• NASA slideshow: Evolution of the spacesuit
• NASA spacesuit test demonstration vid
• Computer-generated visualization of the new suits
• Wikipedia entry for spacesuits (with many individual suit links)
• How spacesuits work
• Why are EVA suits white?
• Encyclopedia Astronautica’s fantastic spacesuit feature
• About.com: history of spacesuits
• MIT: history of spacesuits
• Vide: spacewalkers- testing early spacesuits
• JSC digital image collection results for spacesuit
• UND spacesuit laboratory
• The reluctant astronaut
• Suits for space spies
• The spray-on bio spacesuit (pdf)
• MIT’s skintight spacesuit design
• Women in spacesuits
• Orbital Outfitters
• Authentic US spacesuits
• Spacesuit rentals
• Replica spacesuits
• Spacesuit costumes
• Spacesuits in fiction
• Spacesuits are the new lingerie
• History of Russian spacesuits
• More Russian spacesuits
• Russian spacesuits, the book, at Google books
• US spacesuits, the book, at Google books
• Spacesuits: a primer
• Vid: John Glenn’s spacesuit
• The “secret” to spacesuit design
• Spacesuit patents
• A fart in a spacesuit
• Atomic Rocket’s groovy spacesuit feature
• Flickr set: Vintage Marx space figures
• Buy your own Marx figures
• The 2001 spacesuit restoration project
• The boy in the bubble
• Suited for spacewalking at Scribd
• Design your own spacesuit (pdf)
• Indy Mogul vid: Build your own spacesuit
• ICIS video segment: NASA chemical sand spacesuits
• Moonbase Clavius: spacesuit technology
• Ninefinger gallery of spacesuits
• BBC vid: James Burke explaining the Apollo spacesuit
• Tales of Future Past: the Spacesuit
(If you’ve got anything to add, feel free in comments.)