Specs. Videos. Images. Articles. Docking proccess. SpaceX just teased a chic new spacesuit - Aug. 23, 2017. Elon Musk -- the billionaire serial entrepreneur behind SpaceX -- shared a photo Wednesday of an astronaut wearing a crisp white suit with black paneling, and a helmet with a large, tinted face shield.
Musk said via an Instagram post that the suit pictured is an actual, functioning version of what the company will one day give to astronauts. "Worth noting that this actually works (not a mockup)," he wrote. "Was incredibly hard to balance esthetics and function. " The spacesuit is designed to be used on SpaceX's Crew Dragon -- a new spacecraft the private company is developing that will ferry astronauts to the space station under contracts with NASA. SpaceX is in a race against Boeing (BA) to make history by becoming the first private company to complete that sort of mission. Vandenberg afb.