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The Saturn V was designed to be built in a world where gas was 10c/gal, Engineers were paid $4/hr, cars cost $2,600 but the Apollo Guidance Computer cost $200,000 (in 1960s dollars) but had 1000x less capability than a $5 calculator has today. We are in a completely different world where hardware is cheap but labor is expensive - complete opposite from the 1960s.
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Also, if someone will want to build it again it will be something like the F-1B engine. An in-depth examination of the parts that still exist today to learn the changes between the drawings and production and the knowledge of the craft of those who produced it all, and then creating a modern version of it.
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You can absolutely perform every manufacturing step required to manufacture an F1 engine using modern manufacturing and fabrication processes. In fact, you could almost certainly make a lighter, more powerful, more efficient F1 engine with today's material science and manufacturing.
The problem is that those engines are so incredibly labor intensive and quite frankly primitive in design that you'd be better off adapting the bottom of a Saturn V to take 40 merlin engines, or strapping stages 2 and up to the top of a super heavy booster. Better performance, lower material and labor cost, and you don't have to retest to make sure the engines are built correctly; we already know the production line works.
Quite simply, the F1 engine and Saturn V rocket are an object of their time. We could replicate them, but
there's no point. We have better means to achieve the same end, if the political and monetary will is there.
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As heard from one of the builders of the F1, "each one started with the same plans, but each one was bespoke, and not every change got noted"
The plans are 'lost' only in the sense of we dont have the notes of so much of the changes made to make those what they ended up being. So many little things we changed on every ship, no two were the same. So technically, there are no plans, original concept on paper yeah, but we dont have the exact plans of "thats how it sat on the pad".
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The other half of the "why can't we just do it today" is why would we? Why would you want to build a 1968 mustang for the purpose of using it as a sports car? It would get it's trash kicked by other sports cars. The Saturn V, by today's standards is dinosaur aged technology, and would be horrifically expensive or get the same payloads into orbit and to the moon.
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@Toefoo100
1 week ago
Many of the plans aren't complete in the manner that doing all that tasks by hand required all the machinists to have their own special procedures that made the engines work by trial and error.
Another great example of this was the Chrysler turbine car.
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