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“A 138-foot-tall Saturn V first stage, built at NASA’s Michoud Assembly Facility in New Orleans and transported to KSC by barge, is lifted from its ground transporter in the transfer aisle of the 525-foot-high Vehicle Assembly Building here from where it is placed in a high bay to await stacking of the other stages and spacecraft. The stage will be used on Apollo 13, scheduled to be the third moon-landing mission.”
The truncated appearance of the F-1 engines are due to the thrust chamber nozzle extensions not yet being attached...along with the engine fairings/fins being absent as well.
A really striking photograph.
a13_v_bw_o_n (107-KSC-69P-513)
“A 138-foot-tall Saturn V first stage, built at NASA’s Michoud Assembly Facility in New Orleans and transported to KSC by barge, is lifted from its ground transporter in the transfer aisle of the 525-foot-high Vehicle Assembly Building here from where it is placed in a high bay to await stacking of the other stages and spacecraft. The stage will be used on Apollo 13, scheduled to be the third moon-landing mission.”
The truncated appearance of the F-1 engines are due to the thrust chamber nozzle extensions not yet being attached...along with the engine fairings/fins being absent as well.
A really striking photograph.