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| | Space Suits |
 | | Project MX-117 full "tomato worm" pressure suits were developed and tested in the United States between 1940 and 1943. |
| | Many variants of this suit were used for special projects such as the XS-1, X-1A, and X-2 rocket aircraft, the Project Man High balloon flights and Kittinger's Project Excelsior stratosphere parachute jump from 31.3 km in1960. |
| | This special projects full pressure suit was equipped with integrated subsystems including parachute harness, automatic flotation, redundant pressure control and breathing system, thermal protection. |
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