Space suit A space suit , alternatively spelt spacesuit , ( PROSE : " Diamond Dogs " ) was an article of protective clothing developed for space travel . They were needed to breathe in outer space , although beings possessed by the Beast were capable of surviving without them . ( TV : " 42 " , " The Impossible Planet " ) Earth space suits were created sometime prior to 1969 by the human s , possibly under the guidance of the Silence . ( TV : " The Impossible Astronaut " , " Day of the Moon " ) History . The Doctor ' s space suits . In order to take a walk on the Moon , the Second Doctor provided for himself and his companion s white suits , with transparent helmets , taken from " the chest " of the TARDIS . ( TV : " The Moonbase " ) Jamie McCrimmon and Vorac wore the spacesuits to ride the time wind s . ( PROSE : " Undercurrents " ) The Sixth Doctor wore the same space suit while he was exploring the Axos ship — the one with the " fish bowl helmet " . ( AUDIO : " The Feast of Axos " ) Whilst fighting the Beast on Sanctuary Base 6 in the year 43K2 . 1 , the Tenth Doctor acquired an orange space suit , which he used to explore the depths of the Beast ' s prison , a deep pit . He left the base with the suit on . ( TV : " The Impossible Planet " , " The Satan Pit " ) The Doctor wore a similar suit when battling Torajii in the 42nd century . He needed it to temporarily exit the SS " Pentallian " . ( TV : " 42 " ) The Doctor kept his Sanctuary Base 6 space suit in the TARDIS . He wore it to stroll on the surface of Mars in 2059 . The helmet was damaged in the escape from Bowie Base One , and abandoned shortly after . ( TV : " The Waters of Mars " ) The Eleventh Doctor later again wore the orange space suit , having replaced the helmet and removed the Sanctuary Base 6 insignia , when he travelled to a newly - formed Earth . He thought it brought out his eyes , although Clara Oswald noted that it made " her " eyes hurt . ( TV : " Hide " ) Many centuries later , the Twelfth Doctor , by this time , had acquired two more orange spacesuits which he lent to Clara and Courtney Woods so they could all go for a quick moonwalk . ( TV : " Kill the Moon " ) " The Impossible Astronaut " space suit . When the Silence needed space suits , they implanted the idea of travelling to the Moon in the minds of the humans . They then trapped Melody Pond in a modified suit that they ' d stolen from the space program ; it served as an exoskeleton for her . They put twenty different kinds of alien technology in it , and the space suit was capable of operating without its inhabitant . When the Eleventh Doctor , River Song , Amy Pond and Rory Williams arrived , Melody escaped from the bonds of the suit , destroying it in the process . The suit processed sunlight directly , had built - in weaponry , and a communications system that could hack into anything , including the telephone network . River Song even claimed that you didn ' t have to eat with it on . ( TV : " Day of the Moon " ) River was again abducted by the Silence and placed in another space suit . She sat submerged in the waters of Lake Silencio , before rising out of it and " killing " the Doctor . ( TV : " Closing Time " , " The Wedding of River Song " ) Other space suits . Time traveller Orson Pink possessed a Sanctuary Base Six orange spacesuit . ( TV : " Listen " ) The crew of Chasm Forge used smartsuit s . Upon arriving on the mining station , the Twelfth Doctor , Bill Potts and Nardole also wore the suits . ( TV : " Oxygen " )