Elon Musk Offers First Look at SpaceX's Spacesuit

In between dating actresses and fending off future killer robots, Elon Musk is hard at work as the CEO of Tesla and SpaceX, and he just made a big announcement regarding the latter. 

Musk posted on Instagram early Wednesday the first official photo of the SpaceX spacesuit, which he noted is an actual working model. 

"Was incredibly hard to balance esthetics and function. Easy to do either separately," he writes of the suit, which the Verge describes as "very white and very spacey." The site notes that the spacesuit will be worn by NASA astronauts when SpaceX begins shuttling people to and from the International Space Station and that it's only designed for wear inside the Dragon capsule, not for strolling around in outer space.

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