Why SpaceX suits look so sleek, and NASA’s look so clunky

When Jared Isaacman popped out of the hatch of the Dragon spaceship Resilience and into the vacuum of space, he really looked pretty spiffy. For the first time in history, a private citizen got (partly) out of a spaceship with nothing between him and our Pale Blue Dot but a sleek, tightly fitting white spacesuit. It wasn’t a space walk—like the one Alexei Leonov took on March 18, 1965, the first-ever by a human—as much as a ”lean out and peek,” but he looked like a guy from a sci-fi movie...