American suit models

• High altitude suits (1940's)
• Evgeniy Chertanovskiy created his full-pressure suit or high-altitude skafander in 1931.
• Wiley Post experimented with a number of hard-shell designs for record-breaking flights
• Mercury high-altitude/vacuum suit (1960-1963)
• Gemini spacewalk suits (1965-1966)
• Apollo lunar surface suits (1968-1972)
• Skylab (1973-1978)
• Advance Crew Escape System Pressure Suit on the Space Shuttle (1978-present in various versions)

Russian suit models

• SK-1 , the space suit of Yuri Gagarin , first man in space orbits Earth (1961)
• Berkut , the space suit of Alexey Leonov, the cosmonaut who made first spacewalk.
• Yastreb space suit for extra-vehicular activity
• Orlan suits for extra-vehicular activity
• Sokol suits worn by Soyuz crew members during lift-off and re-entry
• Strizh space suit developed for pilots of Buran space shuttle

Mercury Suits

Gemini Suit

Early Sokol Model

Skafander