For a space show, we don’t actually see many space suits in the SCIFI channel’s revival of Battlestar Galactica. On the rare occasions people head into space, it’s usually pilots flying combat or patrol missions, where they wear suits designed to keep a pilot alive after being ejected, which look closer to high-altitude fighter pilot uniforms than your traditional space suit. That said, these suits can keep someone alive on a planet’s surface, as we saw early in the show when Kara ‘Starbuck’ Thrace is shot down on an uninhabitable moon.

These suits do have great helmets that afford quite a bit of visibility and can be pressurized, but there’s still some sci-fi artistic license. They look improbably easy to move around in, and don’t appear to have a whole lot of life-support options. If you’re shot out, you’ve better hope for a quick rescue.

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These suits can keep someone alive on a planet’s surface, as we saw early in the show when Kara ‘Starbuck’ Thrace is shot down on an uninhabitable moon

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