Re: SPACE: Beyond Apollo

From: Technotranscendence (neptune@mars.superlink.net)
Date: Mon Apr 17 2000 - 01:32:52 MDT


On Saturday, April 15, 2000 6:31 AM Robert Bradbury bradbury@genebee.msu.su
wrote:
> > > [snip], so I can't presume to understand the scope of storing the
> > > engineering drawings for the most complex machine ever built to that
> > > date, [snip]
>
> Is this really still true? How many parts were actually in a Saturn 5?
> I would have to think that much of a Saturn 5 is nothing but big hunks
> of sheet metal, fuel tanks and some plumbing. Size does not equal
> complexity.

Michael Lorrey did write "to that date" -- not to date.:)

Daniel Ust
http://mars.superlink.net/neptune/



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