Intravehicular activity suits — worn inside spacecraft for launch, re-entry and emergency pressure protection. Not rated for open-space EVA.
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"Even a simple IVA suit needs water survival and cockpit visibility contingencies"
"Shows value of integrated survival architecture and the penalty of long-duration IVA wear in a rigidly seated posture"
"Keep rescue-suit platforms on a managed block-upgrade path instead of deferring subsystem refresh for decades"
"Rescue suit discipline must be kept separate from EVA product line — do not overbuild IVA with EVA objectives"
"Demonstrates two parallel commercial crew suit philosophies — Boeing’s heritage David Clark design lineage versus SpaceX’s clean-sheet in-ho…"
"Commercial crew programs can compress decades of incremental government suit evolution into a single clean-sheet design by prioritizing manu…"
"Non-traditional partners — sports equipment manufacturers, medical research institutes — can enter human spaceflight hardware through IVA ra…"
