[Andrew]’s Air filtering unit & positive pressure supply might look like something off the set of Ghostbusters, but it’s an experiment in making a makeshift (but feasible) positive pressure suit. The ...

Researchers at UC-San Diego have engineered a negative-pressure gravity suit that could slow or even prevent the ravages of microgravity on astronauts' bodies suffered during extended spaceflight.

The U-2 pressure suit is a self-contained life support system, providing oxygen, temperature regulation, and protection from the myriad hazards associated with high-altitude flight. The pilots of the ...

Click to open image viewer. This suit is an example of the early types of diving suits, designed and built by the Diving Equipment and Supply Company, which were the original pressure suits enabling ...

Although space suits, which differ from pressure suits in subtle, but important ways, have been well covered in literature, pressure suits have gone unheralded except as introductions to the space ...

The US Navy recently completed tank tests of a new deep-diving suit called the Deep Sea Expeditionary with No Decompression (DSEND) system that is light and flexible, yet maintains sea-level internal ...

Click to open image viewer. This is a United States Navy Mark IV high altitude pressure suit. The Arrowhead Products Company made this suit in the mid-1950s at the request of the Navy as a competition ...