This photo series covers the Kennedy Space Center's "Today and Tomorrow" tour. 

The tour starts at the visitor's complex, then stops at a midway point between the Kennedy and Cape Canaveral AS launch complexes.  From there, it heads to a photo point between the LS 39A and LS 39B launch pads, thence to the Vehical Assembly Building, thence to the Saturn V museum.

Of historical interest is the LS 39B site, which was built to test the Ares II launch vehicle.  That program was cancelled by the Administration in 2010, and was being dismantled.
  • "AiResearch ADvasnced Extra-Vehicular Suit 1967 AiResearch/Garrett Corporation "Concurrent with the 'hard suit' program of the 1960s, NASA also sought to develop highly mobile, hybrid (rather than totlly hard) spacesuits. Hybrid suits like this one were built from fabrics, bonded together (laminated) to form a semi-rigid single-wall structure. Innovative joint designs were incorporated to solve the problems of restricted mobility and astronaut fatigue. The advantges of these joint systems were that the wearer could bend and move without changing the internal pressure of the suit--thereby decreasing the wearer's physical exertion. "Hybrid suits were deceveloped in an effort to make the most of the best features of both the hard and soft suit designs."
  • "RX-2 Extra-vehicular Activity Spacesuit 1964 "Litton Industries "Before the end of 1964, Litton Industries produced a second design of its RX series called the RX-2. Known as a hard suit because of its rigid construction, this suit offered superior mobility and protection than the soft suits of the time. However, it also weighed much more and required more storage space. The suit weighs about 83 pounds (38 kg) and has an integrated helmet, boots and gloves. "The preceding model, the RX-1, featured a soft waist section that did not work as well as expected when pressurized, so in 1963 the suit was re-constructed with a hard wasit and renamed the RX-2. The crank in front was used to raise the height of the internal seat (a bicycle seat) so that the wearer could see out of the helmet visor when seated."
  • "Extra-Vehicular Activity Suit System "David Clark Company, Inc. "This prototype suit is based on the suits of Gemini 8 and was worn by astronaut Gene Cernan (Gemini 9). The cover garment has been redesigned to include a woven stainless steel outer fabric (called Chromel-R) in the lower body area to provide protection from the thruster flames of the backpack, which also contained an oxygen supply and regulation system. "The backpack, known as the astronaut maneuvering unit (AMU), would allow the astronaut to operate totally independently of the Gemini spacecraft without tethers or umbilicals. The AMU used hydrogen peroxide as fuel, and hte ottal velocity was about 250 feet (76.2 meters) per second."
  • "A7L Extra-Vehicular Suit Apollo 14 "Alan Shepard "Made by ILC Industries, the A7-L suits of the Apollo program were soft and flexible. The suits were designed so that during the mission, the astronauts would be able to remove their spacesuits and stow them away in a bag--ready to be worn again during their time on the moon or outside the spacecraft. This suit weighs about 56 pounds (25 kg), and when combined with the portable life support system (PLSS) and additional equipment, weighs a total of 189 pounds (86 kg) here on Earth. "This suit, which was used to walk on the moon, is one of three custom-fitted suits that were provided to each Apollo astronaut. One suit was for flight, one for training, and one was provided as a back-up."
  • Newspapers heralding Apollo 11 lunar landing.