AS-201_v_bw_o_n (8956-1, 12-7-65, verso stamped DEC 12 1965, 65-H-2067 eq)
“First Saturn IB [AS-201], whose booster stage was built in New Orleans, undergoes pre-flight checkout on the launch pad at Cape Kennedy, Fla. Chrysler Corporation Space Division engineers dub the S-IB “topless”, as it awaits mating with an Apollo spacecraft that will ride atop the Saturn when it is launched early in 1966 on a ballistic trajectory down the Atlantic range.”
Per "Saturn Illustrated Chronology - Part 6":
"Technicians at KSC erected Apollo spacecraft 009 atop the AS-201 launch vehicle at Launch Complex 34 on December 26."
AS-201_v_bw_o_n (8956-1, 12-7-65, verso stamped DEC 12 1965, 65-H-2067 eq)
“First Saturn IB [AS-201], whose booster stage was built in New Orleans, undergoes pre-flight checkout on the launch pad at Cape Kennedy, Fla. Chrysler Corporation Space Division engineers dub the S-IB “topless”, as it awaits mating with an Apollo spacecraft that will ride atop the Saturn when it is launched early in 1966 on a ballistic trajectory down the Atlantic range.”
Per "Saturn Illustrated Chronology - Part 6":
"Technicians at KSC erected Apollo spacecraft 009 atop the AS-201 launch vehicle at Launch Complex 34 on December 26."