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First and foremost, a spacesuit needs to be able to contain the air pressure a human being needs in order to breathe and survive. Second, it needs to insulate the person inside it so that his or her body's heat doesn't dissipate into space, and conversely, insulate the person inside from overheating in the direct (non-atmosphere-filtered) sunlight. It needs a extremely well-filtered visor to allow the person to see while filtering out the harmful (again, unfiltered) light of the sun, and it needs to be flexible enough to allow the person inside to perform useful tasks (i.e. walking on the moon). It needs a communication system of some sort (sound doesn't travel in a vacuum -- talking would be pretty much useless without a radio). It needs an air-filtering/scrubbing system to allow a person to survive more than a few minutes before running out of oxygen.

Beyond these basic requirements, there are literally hundreds of more specialized needs that can be built into a spacesuit -- from built-in tools to battery packs to navigation systems.

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