Director Brian DePalma, famous for his suspense thrillers, ventured into the world of science fiction in 2000 for Mission To Mars. With an all star cast and in direct competition with Val Kilmer’s Red Planet, released at the same time, Mission To Mars performed reasonably well.

This is the spacesuit worn by Connie Nielsen as Terri Fisher. Each character had a colour code to their suits and yellow belonged to mission specialist Fisher. It was designed by Sanja Milkovic Hays and is very realistically detailed. The thick nylon weave resembling Kevlar is very similar to a real NASA material and the zips have thick pressure seals. The chest pack is constructed from the same material and contains a plastic water bottle and tubes. There is a metal panel to the front with levers and instructions written in English but in reverse! These instructions would have been impossible to read because of the bulk of the outfit, so there is a mirror on the sleeve of the suit enabling the wearer to clearly see what he is doing. This feature is common to real spacesuits.