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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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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It was theorized to be a vacuum hundreds of years before we went to space. We can also produce vacuum chambers here on earth to design and test such a suit.

Keep in mind we’ve been making pressurized suits for several decades before space flight including for deep sea diving.

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