This is great news. I had read that ALL the technical plans for the Apollo project were gone.
” I had read that ALL the technical plans for the Apollo project were gone.”
I read the same. What they are using now are existing examples. What is gone per Nixon’s directives are the tools, dies, blueprints to make new ones.
Attempting to remake the engines today would cost so much money that it would be cheaper to start from scratch.
Further, there is probably no one alive that understands the computer languages used to control them correctly.
When Y2K came along, they had to dig programmers out of old folks homes to fix the supposed problems - and that was only 14 years ago. The F1 engines were designed and built over 40 years ago.