From Leonov's Near-Disaster to Apollo's A7L - The Evolution of Spacesuits

From balloon-borne pioneers to moonwalkers, this is how the spacesuit kept humans alive. One near-miss changed everything. Step inside a century of innovation, from Auguste Picar’s pressure vessel and Wylie Post’s early suit to the X-15’s nitrogen-pressurized XMC-2. See why the U-2’s MC-3 had to ke…