From: Randall Randall (randall@randallsquared.com)
Date: Fri Sep 05 2003 - 22:20:22 MDT
On Friday, September 5, 2003, at 06:49 PM, Robert J. Bradbury wrote:
> I have heard that the Saturn 5 blueprints were destroyed -- does anyone
> know if this claim is valid or an urban legend?
Well, the blueprints are still available, as Kevin mentioned,
but the harder problem is that they specify lots of 1960s-era
hardware for which the designs may not be available, and
which haven't been made in 30 years.
Of course, these could presumably be reverse engineered from
the function they are supposed to fill, but the design and
testing that would require might be more usefully spent on
a functional equivalent to the Saturn V with modern materials.
-- Randall Randall <randall@randallsquared.com> "You assist an evil system most effectively by obeying its orders and decrees." -- Mahatma Gandhi
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