When people go into space, they spend most of their time in their ship. However, sometimes they have to go outside to take care of some jobs. When they do this, it is important that they wear special clothes called spacesuits.
These spacesuits keep them safe from the heat of the sun and the cold of space as well as give them air. Without these suits, a person would quickly die in space.
But these suits are not without their problems. For one thing, they are very big. It is difficult to work when wearing these suits. When they work outside the ship, people often have to handle very small pieces of equipment, which they can easily lose. There have been many times when people have sent things flying out into space as they did these jobs.
Another problem is that these spacesuits are not very comfortable. Although they do not get hot or cold enough to hurt people, the temperature does change enough to make them wish they were back inside the ship. But the spacesuits do give the person wearing it one very special thing—a chance to clearly see the earth from 200 miles away.