xxIMAGE 500_599\592.Lbm,This all-hard spacesuit, known as the AX-5, has been developed at Ames Research Center for use on space station Freedom.
xxIMAGE 600_699\656.Lbm,The first group of female astronauts selected by NASA for shuttle flights pose near a shuttle spacesuit and a rescue ball.
xxIMAGE 600_699\668.Lbm,An astronaut demonstrates the new shuttle spacesuit and escape ball. The ball provides life-support in emergencies for astronauts without a spacesuit.
xxIMAGE 700_799\776.Lbm,Technicians at the Johnson Space Center demonstrate the shuttle spacesuit and personal rescue enclosure, for emergency use by astronauts without a spacesuit.
xxIMAGE 700_799\779.Lbm,Richard Truly suits up in the early morning of November 12, 1981, in preparation for the second shuttle flight, STS-2.
xxIMAGE 700_799\780.Lbm,Richard Truly (left) and Joe Engle have nearly completed their suiting up in pressurized flight suits for the second shuttle mission.
xxIMAGE 900_999\987.Lbm,Joe Engle practises donning the new shuttle spacesuit in the simulated weightlessness of the KC-135 'zero-gravity' aircraft prior to the STS-2 mission.
xxIMAGE 1700_99\793.Lbm,Two new shuttle spacesuits in the mid-deck airlock. Faulty systems prevented them being tested on this mission. (STS-5)
