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A semi hard suit being tested by NASA almost 20 years ago at Meteor Crater AZ
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70 years ago, engineers thought spacesuits were going to be rigid. One artist, Frank Kelly Freas, changed all that in 1953 with an illustration for The Ark of Mars.
How about Garrett Serviss's Edison's Conquest of Mars. 1898 and reprinted in 1947. https://hatch.kookscience.com/wiki/.....quest_of_Mars_(1947)_-_To_bind_our_prisoner_with_strong_ropes_-_illo._by_Bernard_Manley_Jr.jpg Space suits look more like a wet suit...
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(* shrugs *) I found this on Project Gutenberg (the second book has Manley's illustrations).
Oh those are good. Its a fun read by the way. Unauthorized sequel to War of the Worlds. I call it Star Gate 1898. Was the first early sci fi story with space suits, life support umbilicles with telephones, asteroid mining. Going to the moon as a shake down cruise before heading off to Mars... Started the whole Aliens built the Pyramids thing...
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