Skydiver's space suit and helmet revealed

The space suit was designed by Red Bull Stratos and fabricated by air and space crew protective equipment manufacturer David Clark Company. This is the first space suit ever produced by David Clark Company for a non-governmental space programme.

The suit, along with a pressure helmet, will serve as Baumgartner’s sole life-support system when he steps off his capsule at 120,000ft to attempt a record-breaking free fall from the edge of space.

While there is currently no fixed date set for the attempt, it is expected to take place some time this summer, depending on weather conditions and the resolution of any remaining technical anomalies.

The full-pressure suit has been designed to protect Baumgartner as he travels through a hostile stratospheric environment with hazards including temperatures as cold as -56ºC in an environment with too little oxygen to sustain human life and air pressure so low that decompression sickness and ebullism – a condition in which blood ‘boils’ with life-threatening vapour bubbles – are pervasive dangers.