[mdmathis6]

I’m sure there’s lots of technical specs squirreled away in filing cabinets and in national archives. Heck lots of old encyclopedias have very decent drawings. The rockets we have now are all miniature versions of the same thing and their designs can simply be upscaled. Don’t forget what Tesla just did this year.

Quit the defeatist talk. It would just take political will, money and the necessity to do so to bring such machines back to life!

[Telepathic Intruder]

Actually, it would make no sense to build another Saturn V. We have some tech that we didn't have then, such as reusable engines, so there's no need for a completely expendable rocket. The Saturn V was taller than the Statue of Liberty, and only a small capsule returned from the moon.

By the way, there's a difference between defeatism and realism.

[a fool in paradise]

>>I’m sure there’s lots of technical specs squirreled away in filing cabinets and in national archives.

NASA was buying back some of them from private hands a decade or two ago. Some publications (and they were publicly released) can run $800 or more.

No idea why they wouldn’t be in the Library of Congress or at least one aerospace section of a Harris County Public Library (except that ALA-taught librarians kicked out science and archives for more Jenna Jameson “how to sex” books when they were popular).