How am I supposed to tell you what I think if all you give me is a picture?

Man, writing press releases for NASA must be a breeze.

"NASA reveals new space suits. They're out of this world!"
"Meet the new director of NASA. His qualifications are out of this world!"
"NASA announces drastic new budget cuts. They're out of this world!"

Sontar, ha. Sontar, ha. Geez, someone has been overdosing on Doctor Who. I'm mean I love the Sontarans too, but that suit is ridiculous.

Meh. I'll wait for them to come out in Denim Look before buying.

Space may be the final frontier
But it's made in a Hollywood basement.

And Cobain can you hear the spheres
Singing songs off Station to Station.

And Alderaan's not far away
It's Californication.

Eh, these are really just proof-of-concept prototypes. While the final designs may look somewhat similar in terms of basic structure, I would expect to see significant modifications from these early versions by the time they actually get loaded onto a Mars-bound spacecraft.

I like them but is having them in black a good idea? Wouldn't you want the highest visibility possible?

I've got a bad feeling about this...

Looks too "Buzz Lightyear," to me.

NASA let you vote on 3 different designs and I'm glad the one I voted for won.

Is there a reason it's black?

So who wants to be the astronaut sent to Mars in a spacesuit that was chosen because some randoms on the Internet thought it looked cool?

This makes me want to play XCOM.

is burningman having a "tron meets faft punk" theme this year or something?

damn bigass hands on small touch screen. daft punk

@12: It is not black. This is just the photo of one in the dark.

All very pretty, but how are we planning to go anywhere? At the moment, we aren't even a space-faring nation. The Russians might cut off our taxi service at any moment and we haven't got a car of our own.

@18: The Space Launch System is under development as well as several independent commercial launch systems. The SLS will provide a rocket in the Saturn V+ class while the commercial launch systems will supply access to LEO. I know it kind of sucks right now, but this is the proper path. For too long NASA has compromised and kept programs alive just to say we were a space faring nation (even if we were going absolutely nowhere). When SLS comes online, we will be able to undertake significant missions once again (like building real space stations/depots, extraterrestrial manned exploration, huge space telescopes, etc.) The SLS rocket is going to be big.