flight suit
noun
: a usually one-piece garment especially of fire-resistant fabric worn especially by a member of a military aircrew
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An astronaut wears either a flight suit or spacesuit (or sometimes a business suit) and is positioned behind a table with a scale model of their spacecraft to one side.
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Robert Z. Pearlman, Space.com, 4 Apr. 2025
When people hear Val Kilmer’s name, the vast majority picture him in a flight suit.
—Brian Tallerico, Vulture, 3 Apr. 2025
Wearing dark blue flight suits, Crew 10 commander Anne McClain, pilot Nichole Ayers, cosmonaut Kirill Peskov and Japanese astronaut Takuya Onishi are welcomed aboard the space station after arrival early Saturday.
—William Harwood, CBS News, 17 Mar. 2025
Placed on a flight suit, our CMGs could be used to resist an astronaut’s movement, helping to mitigate some of the effects of long-term weightlessness.
—Michele Carpenter, IEEE Spectrum, 30 Sep. 2015
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Robert Z. Pearlman, Space.com, 4 Apr. 2025
When people hear Val Kilmer’s name, the vast majority picture him in a flight suit.
—Brian Tallerico, Vulture, 3 Apr. 2025
Wearing dark blue flight suits, Crew 10 commander Anne McClain, pilot Nichole Ayers, cosmonaut Kirill Peskov and Japanese astronaut Takuya Onishi are welcomed aboard the space station after arrival early Saturday.
—William Harwood, CBS News, 17 Mar. 2025
Placed on a flight suit, our CMGs could be used to resist an astronaut’s movement, helping to mitigate some of the effects of long-term weightlessness.
—Michele Carpenter, IEEE Spectrum, 30 Sep. 2015
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“Flight suit.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/flight%20suit. Accessed 25 Apr. 2025.
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