An overhead crane lifts the Saturn V first stage for the Apollo 11 mission from the transfer aisle floor in preparation for stacking on a mobile launcher within the Vehicle Assembly Building's High Bay #1. The 138-foot-long first stage will generate a liftoff thrust of 7.7 million pounds when it launches astronauts Neil A. Armstrong, Michael Collins and Edwin E. Aldrin, Jr. on a planned lunar landing mission. Armstrong and Aldrin are to descent to the moon's surface in a lunar module spacecraft. The fully assembled Saturn V space vehicle is called Apollo/Saturn 506. The National Aeronautics and Space Administration directs the Apollo Program. 1969-02-21 KSC-69PC-0069 69HC-307,69H-419,P-06897A,ARCHIVE-01850 NASA Kennedy Space Center NASA-KSC http://images.ksc.nasa.gov/ http://images.ksc.nasa.gov/photos/1969/thumb/KSC-69PC-0069.gif GIF 79 100 11101 http://images.ksc.nasa.gov/photos/1969/low/KSC-69PC-0069.gif GIF 189 240 62926 http://images.ksc.nasa.gov/photos/1969/medium/KSC-69PC-0069.jpg JPEG 604 768 85530 http://images.ksc.nasa.gov/photos/1969/high/KSC-69PC-0069.jpg JPEG 1752 2228 666780