The results are in on what NASA's next-generation astronaut suit should look like, with a Tron-like design winning out in the space agency's call for a public vote.
The public was invited to vote for one of three proposed versions of the Z-2 space suit, which could someday be worn by astronauts going to Mars.
The winning proposal, dubbed "Technology," will be built by November, NASA said.
It beat out two other candidates, one dubbed "Biomimicry" that featured bioluminescent panels resembling the "cool" light seen on deep-ocean creatures, and the "Trends in Society" design meant to predict the look of everyday clothing of the future.
The blue-and-gray "Technology" design won with more than 60 percent of the public vote.
The Z-2 suit, focusing on ease of use and mobility, is meant to function in space or just as easily on the surface of a planet or moon.
It follows NASA's Z-1 design of 2012, which looked a lot like the suit worn by Buzz Lightyear in the "Toy Story" movies, and was even named one of the best inventions of that year by Time magazine.
The most noticeable change on the Z-2 from the Z-1 is an upper torso of hard composite construction, replacing the soft Z-1 torso and intended to provide the durability required for expected Extravehicular Activity on future missions, NASA said.
The internal engineering of the new suits was in the hands of NASA technicians, but the space agency wanted to give the American taxpayer a say on its outer appearance, so it held the vote on three alternatives.
The design winner "Technology," that garnered hundreds of thousands of votes, glow patches of turquoise light that can be customized on a particular suit to help in identify individual astronauts to fellow crewmembers.
The Z-series suits are only prototypes, and will be used in a non-flight testing phase, NASA says.
While the Z-2 will never go into space, "each iteration of the Z-series will advance new technologies that one day will be used in a suit worn by the first humans to step foot on the Red Planet," it says.
The Z-2 will undergo testing at the space agency's Johnson Space Center in its Neutral Buoyancy Lab [video], the giant indoor pool at the Houston site where astronauts are trained in simulated spacewalks.
It will also be tested at a Johnson site that simulates the rocky surface of Mars, NASA said.
