Skintight spacesuits (skinsuits) come into view in the original Buck Rogers comics. The Buck Rogers scenario has become well-known enough to cause expressions such as "Buck Rogers outfit" for real protective suits that look somewhat like spacesuits. Skinsuits are more general in modern science fiction. On the other end of the spectrum one can find the thoughts of heavy powered armor. Robert Heinlein's novel Have Space Suit, Will take a trip draws on his experience designing pressure suits during World WarII.
It is potential that fictional spacesuit design influenced real spacesuit design somewhat, at least in getting real spacesuits to use a hard helmet and not a soft pressurized hood.
Alien spacesuits in the Gerry Anderson UFO sequence are filled with a breathable liquid to resist acceleration stresses.
After NASA started, fictional spacesuits often followed real spacesuit design, in such features as having a huge rectangular backpack.
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