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"Artist drawing by North American Aviation, Inc., -- The white room level of gantry 39 shows the astronauts preparing for insertion into Apoolo spacecraft."
Yep, "Apoolo". Ugh, even back then.
Beautiful conceptual Apollo Program artwork by North American Aviation (NAA) illustrator Gary Meyer of crew insertion.
Mr. Meyer possibly was the illustrator for this 1963 series/family of Apollo concept illustrations. Hard to confirm, as the other NAA/Apollo illustrations have no signature visible, being either cropped out or possibly never signed(?)
The above confirmed by Mr. Meyer himself, in a direct quote from his website, listing his work experience:
"Extensive paintings of Apollo moon missions including a film called “The Apollo Mission” made before the hardware existed."
And, incredibly, thanks to the Dan Beaumont Space Museum, the film is available here:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=IMwv3PtdWcU&t=124s
I also HIGHLY recommend checking out his amazing collection of images on Flickr.
Mr. Meyer's credentials, achievements and honors are amazing:
garymeyerillustration.net/BIOGRAPHY.html
Wow:
garymeyerillustration.net/ILLUSTRATIONS/Pages/early_work....
Specifically in this instance, although with slight variations:
garymeyerillustration.net/ILLUSTRATIONS/Pages/early_work....
Who knew?
Photographed in the Science Museum during my final day in London after an extensive three month visit to western Europe in the summer of 2002.
“APOLLO COMES HOME--Spacecraft command module rides crest of atmosphere with astronauts in heads down position (see cutaway) upon return to earth from orbital flight. Reentry occurs at about 400,00 foot altitude and touchdown is targeted for about 325 miles southeast of Bermuda. Ablative material melts away carrying with it 3,000-degree volcanic-like temperatures during re-entry. Apollo spacecraft command and service modules are produced for NASA’s Manned Spacecraft Center by North American Aviation’s Space and Information Systems Division, Downey, Calif.”
No such thing as too much Apollo…anything…ever.
Am I right?!
As such, a gorgeous artist’s concept, with a slightly different take, that being the CSM umbilical fairing prominently depicted. Along those lines, note also its placement, under the right side of the hatch. That, along with the scimitar antenna & “vertically” oriented negative pitch thrusters all indicative of a Block I command module. Finally, note also the distinctive helmets worn by the Astronauts, associated with the A-1C-1, Apollo Block 1 prototype space suit under development prior to the Apollo 1 tragedy. So, this obviously depicts the first manned Apollo mission, “Apollo 204”, as originally planned.
Unfortunately, no artist’s signature is present. Henry Lozano? Manny Ramirez? Gary Meyer? Bert Winthrop?
Apollo "Boilerplate" Command Module:
airandspace.si.edu/collection-objects/boilerplate-command...
Steven F. Udvar-Hazy Center /
National Air and Space Museum
The Apollo 8 Command/Service Module is removed from the altitude chamber in the Manned Spacecraft Operations Building at KSC, prior to mating with its Saturn V launch vehicle.
A water-level view of Apollo 13 recovery operations in the South Pacific. The three Astronauts are seen egressing their spacecraft. John L. Swigert Jr. (back to camera), Command Module Pilot, is already in the life raft. Fred W. Haise Jr., Lunar Module Pilot, is stepping into the life raft. James A. Lovell Jr., Commander, is leaving the spacecraft in the background. A U.S. Navy underwater demolition team assists with the recovery operations. The three crewmen were picked up by helicopter and flown to the prime recovery ship, USS Iwo Jima. Apollo 13 Command Module ‘Odyssey’ splashed down at 12:07:44 p.m. (CST), 17 April 1970, to safely conclude a perilous space flight. Although the lunar landing was cancelled, the disastrous loss of three Astronauts was averted.
TRULY awesome.
I have doubts about the authenticity of the signature.
A veritable smorgasbord of Command/Service Module fabrication circa 1967 - 1968! From left-to-right/background-to-foreground:
- What appears to be a Service Module (unidentified).
- Command Module 2TV-1.
- Command Module 103 (Apollo 8).
- Command Module 105 (used for acoustic and vibration testing).
- The CM in the right foreground is unidentified.
- And yet another - possibly Command Module 104 (Apollo 9) on the far right, slightly in the background.
Command and Service Module (CSM-105) was originally used for acoustic and vibration testing. The spacecraft is now part of the Apollo-Soyuz (ASTP) display at the National Air and Space Museum.
"The Apollo 14 Command Module (CM) splashes down and two of its three main parachutes can be seen collapsing, as the 10-day mission comes to a safe and successful end. The Apollo 14 spacecraft, with astronauts Alan B. Shepard Jr., commander; Stuart A. Roosa, command module pilot; and Edgar D. Mitchell, lunar module pilot, aboard, splashed down at 3:04:39 p.m. (CST) approximately 765 nautical miles southeast of American Samoa."
Catalog #: Casson_0081
Title: Apollo Capsule
Photo Credit: North American Aviation Inc., Space and Information Systems Division, Photographic Department
Year: 4/20/1966
Collection: Norm Casson Collection
Repository: San Diego Air and Space Museum Archive
A KSC Technician is seen working atop the ‘White Room’ that is connected to the Apollo 11 Command Module, in this spectacular view high above Launch Complex 39A.
Skylab 3 Command and Service Modules being "unpacked" at the Manned Spacecraft Operations Building. Note the two-toned appearance of the Command Module, a thermal control measure due to the spacecraft's relatively fixed position while in orbit, i.e., one side always facing the sun. The silvery side predominantly visible here, is the earth-facing side.
Another image from Scott Sullivan's Virtual Apollo. I really have to hand it to Mr. Sullivan - he created a detailed depiction of an incredibly complicated machine, but made it simple enough for normal human beings to understand. If they'd release a revised and expanded version of this book, I'd be all over it!
The "Apollo-Saturn V Center" is an air conditioned building at the Kennedy Space Center. It is actually located next to the NASA VIP viewing stands that was used for viewing all rocket launches from the 1960s to the last Space Shuttle launch in 2011. You can only get to the Apollo-Saturn V Center by buying admission at the KSC Visitors Center and riding a tour bus onto KSC. Inside, you will find an actual flight ready Saturn V rocket (the first stage is a static test article and not flight worthy) on its side and sitting in a raised up cradle. You can walk under the rocket to get a feel for it enormous size. The Apollo Command Module at the right lower corner of the photo is a flight ready vehicle intended to be used as a Skylab rescue vehicle, should it had been necessary. The Lunar Module (left hand side in this photo) is an actual flight ready vehicle originally intended to be used on Apollo 15. It was not used when Congress canceled funding for Apollo's 18 - 20. NASA then upgraded Apollo 15, 16, 17 to use longer duration Lunar Modules, EVA backpacks, and the new lunar rover (not in this photo but also available to be seen at the center).
Kennedy Space Center
The Apollo 15 Command Module, Endeavor, rests at the United States Air Force Museum, Wright Patterson AFB, Ohio.
Apollo 15 was the fourth mission in which humans walked on the lunar surface and returned to Earth. On 30 July 1971 two astronauts (Apollo 15 Commander David R. Scott and LM pilot James B. Irwin) landed in the Hadley Rille/Apennines region of the Moon in the Lunar Module (LM) while the Command and Service Module (CSM) (with CM pilot Alfred M. Worden) continued in lunar orbit. During their stay on the Moon, the astronauts set up scientific experiments, took photographs, and collected lunar samples. The LM took off from the Moon on 2 August and the astronauts returned to Earth on 7 August. -- NASA
PictionID:53763939 - Catalog:14_032116 - Title:Apollo Program Details: Apollo Command Module Mock Up Date: 09/08/1961 - Filename:14_032116.tif - Images from the Convair/General Dynamics Astronautics Atlas Negative Collection. The processing, cataloging and digitization of these images has been made possible by a generous National Historical Publications and Records grant from the National Archives and Records Administration---Please Tag these images so that the information can be permanently stored with the digital file.---Repository: San Diego Air and Space Museum
With the aid of U.S. Navy Underwater Demolition Team (UDT) Officer extraordinaire (I believe to be Lieutenant Jonathan Smart yet again), Apollo 15 Commander Dave Scott has the look of "OK - I got this - NO Apollo 9 recovery repeat"!
Along those lines, check it out, a challenging recovery for the entire crew of Apollo 9, not just Dave’s minor stumble:
“SOUNDING THE ALL CLEAR: Following a successful launch, a tall, slender tower on top of the man-carrying command module of the Apollo Spacecraft is jettisoned by firing a rocket. The launch escape tower is designed to pull the crew capsule free of the Apollo Saturn vehicle should anything go wrong on the pad or within the first few seconds after blastoff. After the first-stage boosters of the Saturn launch vehicle burn out -- about 36 miles up -- the spacecraft could be returned to earth, even in an emergency, by normal reentry maneuvers. At that point the launch escape system is no longer needed so the tower is separated from the command module, which continues its flight. The tower-jettison motor is made by the Elkton, Maryland, Division of Thiokol Chemical Corporation.”
Based on the Command Module being a Block I, I’m guessing 1966/67. As such, note the accommodations made in the Boost Protective Cover for the scimitar antennas.
A beautiful work by Thiokol Chemical Corporation artist, “G. R. Miller”. Not surprisingly, I’ve found nothing on him.
Interesting additional & pertinent Thiokol information:
cdn2.hubspot.net/hubfs/413105/Apollo%20Press%20Kits/Thiok...
Since I don’t expect the above to be ‘clickable’, check out the following parent website…lots of great stuff to be found:
www.apollopresskits.com/apollo-presskit-directory
Credit: David Meerman Scott
Interior view of the 2TV-1 Command Module, ca. 1968. The Apollo 2TV-1 "mission" involved the crew of Joe Kerwin, Vance Brand, and Joe Engle staying in the CSM test spacecraft (2TV-1) for 177 hours while the spacecraft was in a large vacuum chamber in Houston. A similar test (LTA-8) was run on the LM, with James Irwin and John Bull. The purpose of the tests was to verify the spacecraft were capable of operating in the vacuum of space, under the temperatures and lighting conditions that would be experienced during an Apollo space flight. Note that the center couch has been removed in order to provide some freedom of movement not otherwise possible under earth's onerous gravity. The two blue objects are protective coverings over the hand controllers.
Credit: collectSPACE website, member "tr", at:
www.collectspace.com/ubb/Forum29/HTML/000742.html
Also:
ntrs.nasa.gov/archive/nasa/casi.ntrs.nasa.gov/19740012430...
Excellent summation of the purpose and pertinent specifics of the 2TV-1 "spacecraft/mission":
www.jsc.nasa.gov/history/roundups/issues/68-06-21.pdf
And multiple excellent photos here:
archive.org/search.php?query=2TV-1
An illustration exploring the theme of resistance for D&AD's Dont Panic illustration brief.
Spaceflight is the ultimate resistance; against gravity, against odds, against extinction. However, there are some who think that we should focus on Earthbound matters first and resist the notion that we should focus our gaze upward and away from our earthly obligations.
North American Rockwell technicians are seen installing the boost protective cover of Apollo 15 Command Module ‘Endeavour’.
A gorgeous color version, along with the associated discussion thread:
www.hq.nasa.gov/office/pao/History/alsj/a15/ap15-71-HC-93...
Credit: ALSJ
www.collectspace.com/ubb/Forum29/HTML/001716-2.html
Credit: collectSPACE.com
The actual Apollo 17 Command Module, dubbed "America", is on display in the Starship Gallery of Space Center Houston.
Apollo 17, the final mission of NASA's Apollo program launched on December 7, 1972 with a crew made up of Commander Eugene Cernan, Command Module Pilot Ronald Evans, and Lunar Module Pilot Harrison Schmitt. It was a "J-type mission" which included three days on the lunar surface, extended scientific capability, and the third Lunar Roving Vehicle (LRV). While Evans remained in lunar orbit in this Command/Service Module (CSM), Cernan and Schmitt spent just over three days on the moon in the Taurus–Littrow valley and completed three moonwalks, taking lunar samples and deploying scientific instruments. All three astronauts returned safely to Earth in this capsule, ending an era in space history.
Space Center Houston is the official visitor center of NASA Johnson Space Center and a Smithsonian Affiliate Museum owned and operated by the nonprofit Manned Spaceflight Education Foundation. The center opened in 1992 and hosts more than 1 million visitors annually in its 250,000-square-foot educational complex with over 400 space artifacts, permanent and traveling exhibits, attractions, live shows and theaters dedicated to preserving the history of America's human spaceflight program.
The Lyndon B. Johnson Space Center (JSC) is the National Aeronautics and Space Administration's Manned Spacecraft Center, where human spaceflight training, research, and flight control are conducted. Construction of the center, designed by Charles Luckman, began in 1962 and the 1,620-acre facility officially opened for business in September 1963. The center is home to NASA's astronaut corps, and is responsible for training astronauts from both the U.S. and its international partners. It has become popularly known for its flight control function, identified as "Mission Control" during the Gemini, Apollo, Skylab, Apollo–Soyuz, and Space Shuttle program flights. It is also the site of the former Lunar Receiving Laboratory, where the first astronauts returning from the Moon were quarantined, and where the majority of lunar samples are stored.
The Apollo 4 Command Module being prepared in North American Aviation Space Division’s clean room, for shipment to KSC.
Used as the cover photo:
www.amazon.com/Downeys-Aerospace-History-1947-1999-Aviati...
Credit: Amazon.com website
See also, from 19 December 1966:
static1.squarespace.com/static/56c78acd0442626b2590f5ea/5...
Credit: Aerospace Legacy Foundation Archive
I CANNOT believe THEY got it wrong...pathetic:
www.palosverdespulse.com/blog/2020/6/27/life-at-the-space...
Credit: "Palos Verdes Pulse LLC" website
PictionID:53109802 - Catalog:14_030916 - Title:GD/Astronautics Details: Command Module Mock Up with Men in Space Suits Date: 05/01/1961 - Filename:14_030916.tif - - Images from the Convair/General Dynamics Astronautics Atlas Negative Collection. The processing, cataloging and digitization of these images has been made possible by a generous National Historical Publications and Records grant from the National Archives and Records Administration---Please Tag these images so that the information can be permanently stored with the digital file.---Repository: San Diego Air and Space Museum
The actual Apollo 17 Command Module, dubbed "America", is on display in the Starship Gallery of Space Center Houston.
Apollo 17, the final mission of NASA's Apollo program launched on December 7, 1972 with a crew made up of Commander Eugene Cernan, Command Module Pilot Ronald Evans, and Lunar Module Pilot Harrison Schmitt. It was a "J-type mission" which included three days on the lunar surface, extended scientific capability, and the third Lunar Roving Vehicle (LRV). While Evans remained in lunar orbit in this Command/Service Module (CSM), Cernan and Schmitt spent just over three days on the moon in the Taurus–Littrow valley and completed three moonwalks, taking lunar samples and deploying scientific instruments. All three astronauts returned safely to Earth in this capsule, ending an era in space history.
Space Center Houston is the official visitor center of NASA Johnson Space Center and a Smithsonian Affiliate Museum owned and operated by the nonprofit Manned Spaceflight Education Foundation. The center opened in 1992 and hosts more than 1 million visitors annually in its 250,000-square-foot educational complex with over 400 space artifacts, permanent and traveling exhibits, attractions, live shows and theaters dedicated to preserving the history of America's human spaceflight program.
The Lyndon B. Johnson Space Center (JSC) is the National Aeronautics and Space Administration's Manned Spacecraft Center, where human spaceflight training, research, and flight control are conducted. Construction of the center, designed by Charles Luckman, began in 1962 and the 1,620-acre facility officially opened for business in September 1963. The center is home to NASA's astronaut corps, and is responsible for training astronauts from both the U.S. and its international partners. It has become popularly known for its flight control function, identified as "Mission Control" during the Gemini, Apollo, Skylab, Apollo–Soyuz, and Space Shuttle program flights. It is also the site of the former Lunar Receiving Laboratory, where the first astronauts returning from the Moon were quarantined, and where the majority of lunar samples are stored.
PictionID:55778872 - Catalog:Apollo Details: Project Apollo; Command Module-Nose Cone Date: 03/24/1961 - Title:Array - Filename:14_037943.tif - ---- Images from the Convair/General Dynamics Astronautics Atlas Negative Collection. The processing, cataloging and digitization of these images has been made possible by a generous National Historical Publications and Records grant from the National Archives and Records Administration---Please Tag these images so that the information can be permanently stored with the digital file.---Repository: San Diego Air and Space Museum
Command Module Boilerplate 22 (BP-22) atop a Little Joe II Launch Vehicle at Launch Complex 36, White Sands Missile Range (WSMR) awaiting an Apollo Spacecraft Launch Escape System (LES) test (Mission A-003). The main/lower Boost Protective Cover (BPC) is not yet attached.
www.jsc.nasa.gov/history/oral_histories/JohnsonGW/gallery...
Good A-003 reading at:
www.airspacemag.com/space/confidence-booster-32681/
Last, but very NOT least:
Apollo Launch Abort - View on Imgur: m.imgur.com/t/space/2WKROwy
Credit: imgur/willpatt
See also:
Credit: Internet Archive website
The Block I CM-011, shown here during pre-launch checkout, was a fully functional Apollo Command Module.
Above from the excellent Drew ExMachina website, along with:
www.drewexmachina.com/2016/08/25/as-202-the-last-test-fli...
Vivid digital version at:
archive.org/download/S66-50642/S66-50642.jpg
commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Apollo_Block1_CM.PNG
Credit: JustinTime55/Wikimedia Commons
pictionid60385337 - catalog08002038 - title: Apollo Production - filename0802038.tif---Image from the SDASM Curatorial Collection.Note: This material may be protected by Copyright Law (Title 17 U.S.C.)--Repository: San Diego Air and Space Museum
"The Apollo 11 command and service module in which three American astronauts will fly to a landing on the moon is being uncrated after its arrival at the Spaceport this week. The lunar landing attempt will be made by astronauts Neil A. Armstrong, Michael Collins and Edwin A. Aldrin."
Jazz pianist and singer Diana Krall performs at the Apollo 40th anniversary celebration held at the National Air and Space Museum, Monday, July 20, 2009 in Washington. Diana Krall talked about her love of space flight and showed off her temporary tattoo that honors Canadian Astronaut Bob Thirsk who is currently onboard the International Space Station. Photo Credit: (NASA/Carla Cioffi)
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PictionID:55778846 - Catalog:GD/Astronautics Testing Details: Convair Lark Test Program; Pt. Magu Date: 07/25/1947 - Title:Array - Filename:14_037941.tif - ---- Images from the Convair/General Dynamics Astronautics Atlas Negative Collection. The processing, cataloging and digitization of these images has been made possible by a generous National Historical Publications and Records grant from the National Archives and Records Administration---Please Tag these images so that the information can be permanently stored with the digital file.---Repository: San Diego Air and Space Museum
Apollo 14: Commander Alan Shepard, Command Module Pilot Stuart Roosa, and Lunar Module Pilot Edgar Mitchell
PictionID:53809447 - Catalog:14_031016 - Title:Apollo Details: Apollo Mock Up; Interior View of Command Module Date: 05/08/1961 - Filename:14_031016.tif - - Images from the Convair/General Dynamics Astronautics Atlas Negative Collection. The processing, cataloging and digitization of these images has been made possible by a generous National Historical Publications and Records grant from the National Archives and Records Administration---Please Tag these images so that the information can be permanently stored with the digital file.---Repository: San Diego Air and Space Museum
PictionID:53761100 - Catalog:14_031896 - Title:Apollo Program Details: Apollo Proposal; Mock Up with Space Man Date: 09/28/1961 - Filename:14_031896.tif - Images from the Convair/General Dynamics Astronautics Atlas Negative Collection. The processing, cataloging and digitization of these images has been made possible by a generous National Historical Publications and Records grant from the National Archives and Records Administration---Please Tag these images so that the information can be permanently stored with the digital file.---Repository: San Diego Air and Space Museum
A rare & candid photograph of Virgil “Gus” Grissom, in an unidentified Apollo Command Module mockup. I’m almost certain this photograph was taken during his July 10, 1962 visit to North American Aviation (NAA) Space & Information Systems Division in Downey, CA. Grissom, accompanied by Robert R. Gilruth, Director, MSC and Charles W. Frick, Apollo Program Manager, MSC, were at NAA to conduct the first Apollo spacecraft mockup review/inspection.
If so, and if the following is also correct, the tragic irony is heartbreaking to this day.
An interesting & informative extract from a discussion at “The Space Review” website, by user “oldengg”. While not authoritative, he/she is refreshingly articulate & seemingly very knowledgeable:
“ Sure, NAA had a lot of explaining to do regarding the inferior workmanship and the flammable clutter in the AS-204 CM. But there's a lot of history that needs to be understood to make sense of what happened that day.
In the 1961 Apollo Command and Service Module (CSM) Request for Proposal, NASA baselined an oxygen/nitrogen cabin atmosphere and North American Aviation (NAA) had complied with that requirement in its CSM proposal to NASA. NASA awarded the CSM contract to NAA on that basis and later directed NAA to use a 100% oxygen atmosphere.
In the early CSM preliminary design period, NAA had proposed a single, outward-opening explosive hatch for the Command Module (CM) main entry, one similar to the Mercury hatch design. Again NASA changed the design and directed NAA to develop the inward-opening, dual-hatch system that was used on AS-204.
From Lee Atwood's viewpoint, NAA had done as its customer, NASA, had directed and was now, during his congressional testimony, was being pilloried unfairly for NASA engineering decisions over which NAA had no control. Ironically, AS-204 Commander Gus Grissom was present when the NAA hatch design was discussed at the 10 July 1962 CM mockup review at NAA's Downey plant. Grissom agreed with the NASA Manned Spacecraft Center (now Johnson Space Center, Houston) engineers that the NAA single-piece, outwardly-opening, explosive hatch design should be changed to the presumably safer, inward-opening, dual-hatch configuration. Liberty Bell 7 hangs over AS-204 like a spectre.
And as far as the messy condition of the AS-204 CM, that was clearly NASA's responsibility because NASA had formally taken delivery of that vehicle from NAA in 1966. Many people who were not employed by NAA were involved in preparing the spacecraft for that ill-fated test. NAA had no control over those people or over any flammable material that they might have left in the spacecraft.”
At/From:
www.thespacereview.com/article/3904/1
Also:
apolloproject.com/sp-4009/asc-v1-p013.htm
Credit: “APOLLOPROJECT.COM” website
www.astronautix.com/g/grissom.html
Credit: Astronautix website
Last, but NOT least:
www.facebook.com/photo/?fbid=770226892127511&set=gm.1...
Credit: Mitchell Rothman/"Manned Space History" FB group
The Apollo 11 command module Columbia hatch exterior, as seen during the exhibition, Destination Moon: The Apollo 11 Mission, at The Museum of Flight, Seattle. The hatch served as the entry and exit point to the command module Columbia on the launch pad and after landing.
A water-level view of recovery operations for the Apollo 13 mission in the South Pacific Ocean. The three crewmen have egressed their spacecraft, and are awaiting the arrival of the approaching helicopter, seen deploying the "Billy Pugh" net, which will hoist them up once stationed above their position. The crewmembers (from the left) are astronauts Fred W. Haise Jr., lunar module pilot; John L. Swigert Jr., command module pilot; (only partially visible between Haise and the Command Module (CM)), and James A. Lovell Jr., commander. The U.S. Navy Underwater Demolition Team (UDT) swimmer (Lieutenant Jonathan Smart) will assist the Astronaut's into the net. Apollo 13 splashdown occurred at 12:07:44 p.m. (CST), April 17, 1970, in the South Pacific, about four miles from the USS Iwo Jima, prime recovery ship.
A wonderful & enlightening (to me) screen grab from footage I came upon while conducting a recent search. I’ll refrain from citing the source, it’s in the “name” I’ve assigned…it galls me to even tacitly promote “pay-to-play”/extortion sites. I also didn’t make note of/record the URL…it was late & I was in a pathetic groove.
I love the corny but clever banner! And, to me, it’s delightfully enlightening, as it reveals that unmanned Apollo Command Modules (at least one)…maybe even boilerplates(?)…also received attention & personalization from their makers. In this case the reference to it being the last “1” of the "Block I" Command Modules. I’ve never seen this ‘tradition’ referenced (pertaining to the above) in any online forum. The following is all I’ve come across, regarding only manned Command Modules:
www.collectspace.com/ubb/Forum29/HTML/001889.html
Credit: collectSPACE website
And I’m digging the "I WORKED ON APOLLO 4" bumper sticker as well. Speaking of which:
www.invaluable.com/auction-lot/bob-giffens-apollo-4-launc...
Credit: “invaluable” website
CSM-017, SLA-8 (LTA-10R contained within?) and the S-II second stage (I assume) of Apollo 4 (AS-501) awaiting mating/stacking.
Photo is dated incorrectly. Correct date is February 1967.
Wow:
2.bp.blogspot.com/-yvXxbWoRYNM/WgiXAXvihoI/AAAAAAAAGZw/3o...
Credit: SpaceRubble website
www.ninfinger.org/models/vault/saturn%20v%20detail%20phot...
Excellent information regarding the flight at:
www.history.nasa.gov/SP-4009/v4p2f.htm
And: