When NASA made the first space suits, how did they know what space would be like? I.e., how did they know what to put on the suits?

Question

When NASA made the first space suits, how did they know what space would be like? I.e., how did they know what to put on the suits?

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Answer 1

NASA didn’t make the first space suit. And actually the Russians were the first to send a man into space not America. The origins of the pressure suit are below.

Captain hawthorn c grey made a high altitude balloon flight and died. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hawthorne_C._Gray

Following this another pioneer of flight Wiley Post developed the first pressure suit based on a diving suit in an attempt to fly higher and faster. Picture of him in the first pressure suit attached https://imgur.com/U5P43Sz