IMAGE 100_199\186.Lbm,Director of the Marshall Space Flight Center, Wernher von Braun, in 1969, with his brainchild, the Saturn IB launch vehicle in the background. This was used to launch the first manned Earth-orbit Apollo mission, Apollo 7, and the Skylab astronauts.
IMAGE 400_499\415.Lbm,A Saturn IB launches the Apollo spacecraft towards a rendezvous with Soyuz on the ASTP mission.
IMAGE 700_799\764.Lbm,A Saturn IB launch vehicle carries Apollo 7 into the heavens on the first manned Apollo flight on October 11, 1968.
IMAGE 800_899\832.Lbm,Wernher von Braun inside the blockhouse in July 1966, observing the lift-off of a Saturn IB launch vehicle through the periscope.
IMAGE 800_899\897.Lbm,Some of the launch vehicles on display in the 'rocket park' of the Visitors Center at the Kennedy Space Center. The one on the right is a Saturn IB.
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IMAGE 1600_99\639.Lbm,The first flight of the Saturn IB launch vehicle from Cape Canaveral, on February 26, 1966. It carries an instrumented Apollo CSM. The command module is successfully recovered.
IMAGE 1700_99\706.Lbm,Sunrise over the pad on November 16, 1973, for the Skylab 4 astronauts, shortly to be launched to Skylab by Saturn IB rocket.
IMAGE 1700_99\707.Lbm,The Skylab 4/Saturn IB launch vehicle blasts off the pad on November 16, 1973.
