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![]() The first thing you are going to need in space is ... air. And that's the first requirement from a space suit.
This is a very early reference to the idea of special protective gear for space travelers. The earliest science fiction stories about space (like Jules Vernes') assume that space explorers will always encounter an atmosphere on celestial bodies (like the moon). Verne does supply fresh air to his explorers in their Projectile vehicle, however:
The same phrase is found in Edmond Hamilton's 1931 short story The Sargasso of Space:
This term had not been standardized seven years later; in Satellite Five, published in 1938, the phrase was hyphenated - "they piled into space-suits."
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