It would be nice if you did the alien with and without his backpack handles, then one can have a flying and walking version, if he is flying then he needs to shoot some how, so perhaps he needs guns on his shoulders/shoulder or under his arms or something. Could even make a version that has the abillity to attach a weapon, like one does to hands, but its to his top of shoulders/shoulder, that way he can have different weapons there, then make a small selection of simple guns, dont need to be that fancy a simple mesh will do the job, then in the script he can have different guns, perhaps an animation that has than come out of his suit and into position, that would be really cool. Id buy that in an instant.
Perhaps you could have them as a pair with something like this

or as 3, regular Astronaut, flying Astronaut with pack, and the alien, that would be a super pack, I have a jet pack script I bought from someone, so one could have a real planet level, set the gravity low and have something really unique.