Designs for suits—technically called Extravehicular Mobility Units or EMUs—have continued to evolve since the Apollo days, but the suit astronauts ... and the current space station EVA suits ...

According to the company's press statement, the new suits are an evolution of the Intravehicular Activity (IVA) suit currently ... the first EVA where four astronauts were in space simultaneously ...

In fact, NASA are down to just four flight-ready EVA suits ... for the Space Shuttle program in 1974 and have vastly overworked their original 15-year-life design. Suit No. 1 was only used ...