IMAGE 300_399\307.Lbm,The hub of Complex 39 at the Kennedy Space Center, the towering VAB; to the bottom left is the launch control centre. This 1969 picture shows a Saturn V/Apollo stack beginning its journey by crawler transporter to the launch pad.
IMAGE 600_699\673.Lbm,The single engine of Saturn V's third stage, which burned liquid hydrogen and liquid oxygen propellants.
IMAGE 1900_99\919.Lbm,The first stage engines of the Saturn V Moon rocket, which is on display in front of the VAB and a favourite tourist attraction at the Kennedy Space Center.
IMAGE 0_99\16.Lbm,Technicians mate the CSM with the Saturn V launch vehicle in the VAB prior to the first manned Apollo mission, Apollo 7.
IMAGE 800_899\804.Lbm,Saturn V blasts off the launch pad on July 16, 1969, carrying Apollo 11, first into Earth orbit and thence to the Moon.
IMAGE 100_199\168.Lbm,The spectacular lift-off of Saturn V/Apollo 17 on December 7, 1972, the first and only night-time launch of the Saturn V.
IMAGE 300_399\331.Lbm,The Saturn V/Apollo 17 launch vehicle lights up the night sky as it thunders from the pad on December 7, 1972.
IMAGE 500_599\589.Lbm,Bathed in the glow of a Florida sunset, the Skylab 1/Saturn V launch vehicle is being readied for launch in May 1973.
IMAGE 100_199\170.Lbm,The last operational Saturn V lifts Skylab off the launch pad on May 14, 1973, on the unmanned Skylab 1 mission. The launch looks fine, but is flawed, as NASA finds out when Skylab reaches orbit.
IMAGE 0_99\24.Lbm,Enterprise touches down at Edwards Air Force Base in California, during approach and landing tests in October 1977.
IMAGE 1600_99\673.Lbm,The enormous Super Guppy aircraft built for NASA to ferry large- size parts for the Saturn 5 rocket and other Apollo equipment.
