NASA has unveiled two new spacesuits for its astronauts to wear as part of plans to return to the moon by 2024.
One of the outfits is intended to be worn during the flight in space, while the other has been designed for the exploration of the moon's south pole.
The new suits were made with women in mind as the US space agency hopes to land the first female on the moon within the next five years.
Two of NASA's employees modelled the outfits at the agency's Washington D.C. headquarters.
They did squats and crunches in front of a crowd of students and reporters to reveal what the first zero-gravity space-wear under NASA's Artemis moon program would look like.
Chris Hansen, a manager at NASA's spacesuit design office, said: "This is the first suit we've designed in about 40 years.
"What you saw today was a prototype of the pressure garment. The life support system is back in a lab in Houston.
"We want systems that allow our astronauts to be scientists on the surface of the moon."
The Trump administration in March directed NASA to land humans on the moon by 2024, accelerating a goal to colonize the moon as a staging ground for eventual missions to Mars.
One suit of orange fabric will be worn by astronauts when inside the spacecraft. Astronauts will wear a much bigger mostly white suit on the lunar surface.
Amy Ross, NASA's lead spacesuit engineer, said the new suits make it much easier to walk, bend and squat when walking on the lunar surface.
"Basically, my job is to take a basketball, shape it like a human, keep them alive in a harsh environment, and give them the mobility to do their job,'' she said.
The new suits come as a much-needed upgrade to NASA's astronaut wardrobe.
Astronauts Christina Koch and Anne McClain were slated in March to conduct the first ever all-female spacewalk outside the International Space Station.
However, the mission was called off because there weren't enough spacesuits available on the station for both of them.
Another attempt for the first all-female spacewalk, a roughly six-hour crawl on the exterior of the space station to install new batteries, is back on for Thursday.
