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What kind of Pressure suit or Spacesuit for the CEV?

It's not easy to go through all the info about the VSE to find what kind of suit the astronauts will wear during a CEV flight....

Robert Pearlman seems to suggest a special kind of spacesuit will be worn on the Moon (perhaps 4 astronauts could wear 2 hard spacesuits in turn...
But what about launch and landing (and rendez-vous in LEO or LO)?
The Apollo astronauts wore one spacesuit (and this thus required a lot less room for storage).
I can't believe CEV astronauts would wear an ACES pressure suit, a spacesuit for 0G EVA's and a spacesuit for the Moon!!
If astronauts were to spacewalk from the CEV, the entire capsule would have to be depressurized and even those not spacewalking would need to wear a spacesuit, not the pressure suit.

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