Women in Spacesuits in TV and Film...(the 70's!)
 
Agutter, Jenny 1977
TV: Six Million Dollar Man 
(Episode: Deadly Countdown)
Jenny plays a NASA astronaut in this episode, and towards the end of the story is seen in this apollo launch suit as she is launched into space...
SEE ALSO: Simone Griffith, Farrah Fawcett Majors
Bain, Barbara 1976
TV: Space 1999
Barbara is seen wearing the standard "Moonbase Alpha" red spacesuit in various episodes accross the series. Usually, she is assigned Spacesuit No. 2
SEE ALSO: Catherine Schell, Stacey Dorning, Ziena Merton...
Bell, Nancy 1976
Film: Futureworld
Follow up to Westworld has the Outer Space theme park being thrown into Chaos. nancy plays Erica, our Female host into outer space!!!!
SEE ALSO: Blythe Danner, Angela Greene
Cartwright, Veronica 1979
Film: Alien
Convincing spacesuit design for the EVA team on the planet to check out the crashed alien spacecraft....And so it began...
SEE ALSO: Sigourney Weaver
Danner, Blythe 1976
Film: Futureworld
Follow up to Westworld, Blythe is the female reporter en route to the Outer Space Theme Park
SEE ALSO: Nancy Bell, Angela Greene
Drake, Gabrielle 1970
TV: UFO
Some of the best spacesuits used in Sci Fi. Unfortunately Gabrielle is only one of three women to wear them in Epiosdes Ordeal and Responsibility Seat.
SEE ALSO: Tracey Reed, Dolores Mantez
Dorning, Stacey 1976
TV: Space 1999 (Exiles)
Left adrift in space in a spacesuit, with no hope of rescue....towards the end of the episode.
SEE ALSO: Barbara Bain, Catherine Schell, Ziena Merton
Doty, Judith 1978
Film: Killings At Outpost Zeta
The Crew of the ship wear the red Spacesuits with obvious white Crash Helmets to walk to "Outpost Zeta" and find it destryed.
SEE ALSO: Jacquelyn Ray
Fawcett Majors, Farrah 1974
TV: Six Million Dollar Man (Rescue Of Athena One)
Farrah plays NASA's first female astronaut, and obviously, things go wrong and she gets stranded in space. She is seen wearing her suit for launch, and later wearing a very convincing NASA style suit during a spacewalk with an umbilical line.
SEE ALSO: Jenny Agutter, Simone Griffith
Gaunt, Fiona 1973
TV: Moonbase Three
Quite convincing Spacesuits here. Fiona wears them sporadically, but is seen on a moonwalk of quite a duration in Episode One
Greene, Angela 1976
Film: Futureworld
Angela plays Mrs Reed seen during the launch to Futureworld in the Futureworld spacesuit, wanting to be somewhere else!!
SEE ALSO: Blythe Danner, Nancy Bell
Griffith, Simone  1976
TV: Six Million Dollar Man (Episode: Dark Side Of The Moon) 
Simone plays an astronaut on a mission to an asteroid that gets diverted to the Dark Side Of The Moon. She is seen on the surface in her suit.
How, Jane 1973 TV: Dr Who (Planet Of The Daleks) Jane is a member of a space expedition that lands on the Daleks planet. She always wears the suit torso throughout, but never a helmet.
SEE ALSO: Wendy Padbury, Aneeke Willis
Long, Melissa 1978
Film: War Of The Robots
Melissa dons a spacesuit to escape from the spaceship she is being held captive on. This film can also be found as "Reactor (1985)
Mantez, Dolores 1970
TV: UFO (Responsibility Seat)
Dolores wears the silver moonbase spacesuit at the same time as fellow female cast member Gabrielle Drake whilst expecting moonbase to depressurise at any time...
SEE ALSO Gabrielle Drake, Tracey Reed
Merton, Ziena 1976
TV: Space 1999
Look out for her in occasional short suit scenes. better shots in the episode "Last Sunset" as she is the chosen guinea pig to try the moons new found atmosphere!
SEE ALSO: Barbara Bain, Catherine Schell, Stacey Dorning
Munro, Caroline 1979
Film: Star Crash
Caroline wears an awful looking spacesuit to escape an exploding spacecraft towards the end of this one
Reed, Tracey 1970
TV: UFO (Dalotek Affair)
Tracey is a member of a commercial team of astronauts sent to the moon. She is seen wearing the standard UFO silver Spacesuit on many occasions.
SEE ALSO: Gabrielle Drake, Dolores Mantez
Ray, Jacquelyn 1978
Film: Killings At Outpost Zeta
Stereotypical motorcycle crash helmets used as space helmets here as Jacqulyn and her collegues cross the terrain of a baron airless planet to find a deserted base. during the walk Jaquelyn's airline snaps..
SEE ALSO: Judith Doty
Schell, Catherine 1976
TV: Space 1999 (Season Two)
Catherine wears the Moonbase spacesuit on many occasions for moonwalking, spacewalking and transit..
SEE ALSO: Barbara Bain, Ziena Merton, Stacey Dorning
Stewart, Trish 1979
TV: Salvage One
Seen wearing her spacesuit in a couple of episodes as either a pilot of the space capsule or on the lunar surface..
SEE ALSO: Joan Young
Weaver, Sigourney 1979
Film: Alien
End scene where Sigourney slowly dons a spacesuit in the shuttle to kill the alien...
SEE ALSO: Veronica Cartwright
Young, Joan 1978
TV: Salvage One
Joan is one of the space station astronauts trapped on the malfunctioning station and needing to be rescued. She dons a spacesuit while awaiting rescue.

 

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