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Did #NASA really lose the plans to the Saturn V?! Full video - https://youtu.be/fMHLvoWZfqQ
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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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@connecticutaggie

1 week ago

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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@zadevil635

1 week ago

Why make an outdated rocket when you can make a better one anyway right?

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@alhassanait1749

1 week ago

I love how this guy defends the moon missions . Respect .

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@WhiskyCardinalWes

1 week ago

The plans weren't lost, it was the industrial knowledge pool that was lost.

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@ofirweinstein9456

1 week ago

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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@wyattroncin941

1 week ago

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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@SafeBandicoot

1 week ago

This myth is a clear sign of a lack of hands-on training at school. Kids really need the opportunity to experience what it’s like to build something. The lack of respect towards the tools, skills and complexity involved in building complex things is a huge problem.

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@blacksunshinegaming9315

1 week ago

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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@michaelstern1945

1 week ago

I worked for Rocketdyne in the 60’s there was no CNC machining yet, now you have incredible 3D printing.

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@grbradsk

1 week ago

Had a minor role in Firefly's Blue Ghost lunar lander that recently achieved the first successful commercial lunar landing in history. It is both simpler and so much better/cheaper than the Apollo LEM. With funding, we could fairly quickly put people on the moon.

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@War_Diesel

1 week ago

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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@Tenpoundpom150

1 week ago

I use Apollo documents with test data and empirical formulas to this day, it's amazing how useful they still are.

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@jllucci

1 week ago

Petty obvious. It'd be like building a B-29 now when we have stealth bombers.

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@Concavenator_corcovatus

1 week ago

Bro welding is hard, but having to make a weld strong enough to hold the force of the F-1… mad respect

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@blucat4

1 week ago

Please don't force subtitles on us. Put them in the CC (Closed captions) area so we can turn them on or off as we choose.
Thank you in anticipation of your cooperation.

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@HarryLewington

1 week ago

More reason to keep the old trades alive seeing as the knowledge is being lost. As the older generation dies the skills and knowledge goes with them if we don’t keep the skill and trade alive.

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@waynehewett4017

5 days ago

In other words they cant be bothered finding talented trades people to do the jobs

And every thing has to be cutting edge technology even if it worse than the technology they had back in the 1970s

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@harry-John785

1 week ago

Also a lots of the engineers nits were binned and yes the plans still exist for example, the engines each engine was slightly different

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@Ask-a-Rocket-Scientist

1 week ago

Saturn V was insanely expensive. With current bloat it would cost $10B a flight.

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