Here’s a NASA video about new spacesuit designs that the agency is developing:

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Elon Musk talks in this interview about the spacesuits that SpaceX is designing for the company’s astronauts who will fly in the Crew Dragon vehicle: How Elon Musk Plans on Reinventing the World (and Mars) – GQ

.. And so this Monday evening, his mind is on space suits. Right now, specifically, he needs to go see the latest secret prototype of a new kind of space suit—the first to be made by a private rocket company for astronauts to wear into orbit and beyond, which he hopes will go into use in 2017.

“We’re trying to have a good balance between aesthetics and functionality,” he explains, sitting in his office at SpaceX. “It’s tricky to have something that works in reality and looks good.”

As with much of what Musk does, there is a plan, but then, behind that, there’s often a bigger plan. To Musk, it’s obvious that this new space suit not only needs to work well but also needs to look cool, because he needs people—regular people like you and me—to imagine themselves wearing it.