"Workers prepare to install the first stage of AS-201’s Saturn-IB on Launch Pad 34 at the Cape Kennedy Air Force Station, now the Cape Canaveral Space Force Station."

Date: August 18, 1965

Workmen at the Marshall Space Flight Center's dock on the Ternessee River unload S-IB-211, the flight version of the Saturn IB launch vehicle's first stage, from the NASA barge Palaemon. It was towed to the static test stand in the west test area.

"Between December 1967 and April 1968, the stage would undergo seven static test firings in MSFC's S-IB static test stand. The S-IB, developed by the MSFC and built by the Chrysler Corporation at the Michoud Assembly Facility near New Orleans, Louisiana, utilized eight H-1 engines and each produced 200,000 pounds of thrust."

Date: October 1967

"S-IB-1, the first flight version of the Saturn IB launch vehicle's first stage (S-IB stage), sat in the Marshall Space Flight Center (MSFC) Saturn IB static test stand on March 15, 1965. Developed by the MSFC and built by the Chrysler Corporation at the Michoud Assembly Facility (MAF) in New Orleans, Louisiana, the 90,000-pound booster utilized eight H-1 engines to produce a combined thrust of 1,600,000 pounds."

Date: March 1965

Workers lift the S-IVB second stage of the Saturn IB (SA-204) for stacking onto the S-IB first stage for the Apollo 1 (AS-204) mission, on Launch Complex 34.

Date: September 26, 1966

"The S-IB-1, the first flight version of the Saturn IB launch vehicle's first stage (S-IB stage), undergoes a full-duration static firing in Saturn IB static test stand at the Marshall Space Flight Center (MSFC). Developed by the MSFC and built by the Chrysler Corporation at the Michoud Assembly Facility (MAF) in New Orleans, Louisiana, the 90,000-pound booster utilized eight H-1 engines to produce a combined thrust of 1,600,000 pounds. Between April 1965 and July 1968, MSFC performed thirty-two static tests on twelve different S-IB stages."

Date: April 13, 1965

The S-IB first stage intended for Apollo 1 SA-204 mission was erected at Launch Complex 37B, Cape Kennedy, Florida. It was transferred from nearby Complex 34. It was repurposed for Apollo 5 to send the unmanned Lunar Module (LM-5) into Earth orbit later that year.

Date: April 7, 1967

"Ground crews hoist the Saturn IB rocket’s first stage for the Apollo AS-202 mission into position at Launch Pad 34 at the Cape Kennedy Air Force Station, now Cape Canaveral Space Force Station, in Florida."

Date: March 1, 1966

The first stage of Saturn IB (S-IB-6) being moved to the pad at LC-37B to begin stacking of Apollo SA-206. It was to launch the first Lunar Module (LM-1) into orbit for real world testing of the craft that would take man to the moon. However, delivery delays of LM-1 by Grumman (the manufacturer of the Lunar Module) and the fire that claimed the lives of the Apollo 1 astronauts, caused a reordering of missions and vehicles of Apollo. The launch vehicle intended for Apollo 1 (SA-204) was undamaged and used to lift the LM-1 into orbit on Apollo 5. SA-206 was disassembled and placed into storage. It was later refurbished and used was used to lift the first manned mission, Skylab 2, to the orbital workshop.

Date: January 22, 1967