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Elon Musk reveals new SpaceX spacesuit

SpaceX has unveiled a sleek white spacesuit for astronauts on its crewed flights coming up next year.

The challenge was balancing aesthetics and function, Musk noted

This undated image made available by Elon Musk on Wednesday, Aug. 23, 2017 shows a new spacesuit from his company SpaceX. It's designed for its crewed flights planned for 2018. (SpaceX via Associated Press)

SpaceX has unveiled a sleek white spacesuit for astronauts on its crewed flights coming up next year.

Chief executive Elon Musk made the big reveal via Instagram on Wednesday. He says it's not him in the new suit, rather a SpaceX engineer.

Musk says the newSpaceXsuit has been tested on Earth and works.

SpaceX is developing a crew version of its Dragon cargo capsule for NASA astronauts.Boeing is also working to get U.S. astronauts flying again from home soil. While the SpaceX suits are white, Boeing will have bluespacesuits for its Starliner capsules.

U.S. astronauts last rocketed away from Cape Canaveral, Florida, in 2011. They've since been riding Russian rockets to get to the International Space Station which costs NASA roughly $80 million per seat.

In 2014, NASA signed a contract with SpaceX and Boeing to once again launch astronauts from U.S. soilat a cost of $2.6 billion and $4.2 billion respectively.