[AR] Re: What happened to the Space Shuttle?
- From: Henry Spencer <hspencer@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: Arocket List <arocket@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Mon, 22 Jul 2019 16:48:42 -0400 (EDT)
On Mon, 22 Jul 2019, John Dom wrote:
For the last decades there were so many km of textlines spent pointing
out the construction / manufacture details and documents of e.g. the F1
engine had; oooh gone lost. Gone.
Uh, no, not by people who knew what they were talking about. There was an
organized effort to preserve the necessary information, and most of it's
still around. Still some need to rebuild manufacturing capability and
re-test the results, yes, because documentation wasn't detailed enough to
permit exactly matching old processes and materials, but that was
inevitable.
Some even went as far as to salvage a spent F1 from the ocean floor to
get to grips with F1 details.
No, the people who salvaged F-1 wreckage from the ocean floor were seeking
historical artifacts, not technical information.
While several F1s in reasonable condition were on show at the Cape.
More importantly, there are still F-1s in protected storage at Marshall
(and people *have* been examining them in recent years for insight into
some technical details).
Now at present we are all going for an international lunar base craze
once more, proving the reason why Saturn was turned down (the lack of
political incentive vs the USSR) looks like FAKE NEWS.
There has never been any doubt as to why Saturn production was closed
down: because there were no funded customers for it. No money for more
lunar flights (let alone lunar bases), no money for more Skylabs, no money
for the big space station NASA wanted to launch with Saturn Vs, no money
for big planetary probes. And so, no money for more Saturn Vs, and in
fact no money to launch the last two that *were* built.
Whether anything has changed is yet to be seen. Nobody is yet putting up
*MONEY* for lunar bases, regardless of all the talk.
Henry
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