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The Saturn V Rocket and Supply Chain Innovation (NASA and its corporate partners built 15 Saturn V rockets...Remarkably, every Saturn V launch was successful [if not always without some delays])
Industryweek.com ^ | May 12, 2011

Posted on 06/02/2024 6:20:42 PM PDT by daniel1212

The Saturn V was, and still is, the largest object to leave the surface of the Earth. At 363 feet in height -- or over 30 stories tall -- the rocket weighed 6.3 million pounds, about the weight of...50 Boeing 747s...

The rocket was the loudest creation made by human hands, except for the cacophony created by nuclear explosions. ...The five rocket engines of the Saturn V's first stage were the most powerful ever built...requiring 7.7 million pounds of force...

To house the Saturn V, NASA built the Vertical Assembly Building (VAB) at Kennedy Space Center, which remains one of the world's largest buildings, covering almost eight acres. The VAB's four mammoth doors, 456 feet in height, are the largest ever made...

Thirteen went into space. Twelve were used in the Apollo missions, 10 of which carried astronauts and six of which took men to the moon. The last Saturn V to fly was used for the Skylab program in May 1973.

Remarkably, every Saturn V launch was successful. Two missions suffered in-flight problems including engine cutoffs, but these were overcome, resulting in successful outcomes...

The Saturn program's dispersed research, production and testing facilities, spread all over the country, presented a major logistics and quality-control obstacle. Imagine building a piece of a puzzle at various locations and then hoping all the pieces would fit together without a problem. Chances for success seemed dependent on too many variables...

Facing a future of Soviet scientific dominance, America was able to move with a purpose...The scope and magnitude of building and launching the Saturn V rocket is an example of supply chain management at its finest.... harness the energies of 400,000 engineers, scientists, technicians and supply chain professionals...


TOPICS: Astronomy; Business/Economy; History; Military/Veterans
KEYWORDS: apollo; glorydeparted; godsgravesglyphs; moonlanding; moonlandings; nasa; nazis; saturn5rocket; saturnv; wernervonbraun; wokemployment
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1 posted on 06/02/2024 6:20:42 PM PDT by daniel1212
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This was when NASA’s job was to get things done instead of checking off boxes.


2 posted on 06/02/2024 6:21:49 PM PDT by DarrellZero
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To: daniel1212

We can outsource that to the Chinese and save a bundle.


3 posted on 06/02/2024 6:25:01 PM PDT by BipolarBob (If at first you don't succeed then skydiving is not for you.)
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To: BipolarBob

Makes sense, they probably have all the plans...


4 posted on 06/02/2024 6:27:30 PM PDT by null and void (“No matter how cynical you become, it’s never enough to keep up”. ~ Lily Tomlin)
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To: BipolarBob

Dis they have enough POC engineers?


5 posted on 06/02/2024 6:28:44 PM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum (The worst thing about censorship is █████ ██ ████ ████ ████ █ ███████ ████. FJB.)
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To: DarrellZero
In those days NASA was dominated by engineers and scientists. I doubt the word "HR" had even been invented.

Today NASA is unskilled POCs, DEI hires, BS artists, nontechnical managers, bean counters, wymyns, woke fruits, and tranny nuts.

6 posted on 06/02/2024 6:30:27 PM PDT by Governor Dinwiddie (LORD, grant thy people grace to withstand the temptations of the world, the flesh, and the devil.)
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To: daniel1212

Fast forward decades until now and the only thing the gummit can lift is the debt ceiling.


7 posted on 06/02/2024 6:35:16 PM PDT by quantim (Victory is not relative, it is absolute. )
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To: Governor Dinwiddie

(In those days NASA was dominated by engineers and scientists.)

Mainly ex-Nazis.


8 posted on 06/02/2024 6:40:55 PM PDT by Macho MAGA Man (The last two weren't balloons. One was a cylindrical objects Trump is being given the Alex Jones tr)
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To: daniel1212

All thanks to a Nazi under Operation Paperclip.

In a word, that history is rather pathetic. Remarkable, but pathetic.


9 posted on 06/02/2024 6:41:25 PM PDT by logi_cal869 (-cynicus the "concern troll" a/o 10/03/2018 /!i!! &@$%&*(@ -)
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To: daniel1212

Pre-DEI, maybe...

However, NASA hasn’t been smart enough to figure out how to scratch its own ass since the late 1990s...


10 posted on 06/02/2024 6:42:16 PM PDT by SuperLuminal ( Where is Samuel Adams when we so desperately need him)
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To: daniel1212

As I recall the engines were made by Chrysler.


11 posted on 06/02/2024 6:43:39 PM PDT by jeffersondem
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Gather ‘round while I sing you of Wernher von Braun,
A man whose allegiance
Is ruled by expedience.
Call him a Nazi, he won’t even frown,
“Ha, Nazi, Schmazi, “ says Wernher von Braun.

Don’t say that he’s hypocritical,
Say rather that he’s apolitical.
“Once the rockets are up, who cares where they come down?
That’s not my department, “ says Wernher von Braun.

Some have harsh words for this man of renown,
But some think our attitude
Should be one of gratitude,
Like the widows and cripples in old London town,
Who owe their large pensions to Wernher von Braun.

You too may be a big hero,
Once you’ve learned to count backwards to zero.
“In German oder English I know how to count down,
Und I’m learning Chinese!” says Wernher von Braun.

-Tom Lehrer


12 posted on 06/02/2024 6:44:05 PM PDT by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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To: daniel1212
Industryweek.com ^ | May 12, 2011

And even more relevant today.

Visiting Marshall

NASA’s Marshall Space Flight Center is situated on the U.S. Army’s Redstone Arsenal in Huntsville, Alabama. Visitors are welcomed at the U.S. Space & Rocket Center, Marshall’s official Visitor Center. U.S. Space & Rocket Center visitors can learn more about Marshall’s legacy and ongoing work.

Interactive exhibits and historic artifacts demonstrate our critical role in supporting the breadth of NASA’s exploration and science missions. Visitors will learn how Marshall develops, integrates and manages complex space systems and scientific research projects that continue to yield exciting and innovative scientific discoveries.

Visit Marshall

U.S. Space & Rocket Center

The Saturn V was, and still is, the largest object to leave the surface of the Earth. At 363 feet in height...

(= המשיח)

13 posted on 06/02/2024 6:45:22 PM PDT by Ezekiel (🆘️ "Come fly with US". 🔴 Ingenuity -- because the Son of David begins with MARS ♂️, aka every man)
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To: Governor Dinwiddie
Today NASA is unskilled POCs, DEI hires, BS artists, nontechnical managers, bean counters, wymyns, woke fruits, and tranny nuts.

Yep, it is now the same as any other federal agency.

14 posted on 06/02/2024 6:55:31 PM PDT by Charles Martel (Progressives are the crab grass in the lawn of life.)
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To: daniel1212

It was built without DEI. Designed mainly by white men using slide rules and pencils. In a program run by ex-Nazis.

So of course it worked.


15 posted on 06/02/2024 6:55:44 PM PDT by PAR35
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To: daniel1212

Regrettably the knowledge to build a Saturn V was not captured. To do it again would be a lot of starting over.


16 posted on 06/02/2024 6:58:08 PM PDT by The Truth Will Make You Free
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To: null and void

They dismantled the places they could build the Saturn 5 and burned the plans... seriously, they no longer exist.


17 posted on 06/02/2024 6:58:27 PM PDT by Glad2bnuts (“And how we burned in the camps later, thinking: We should have set up ambushes...paraphrased)
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To: dfwgator

lol


18 posted on 06/02/2024 7:01:06 PM PDT by logi_cal869 (-cynicus the "concern troll" a/o 10/03/2018 /!i!! &@$%&*(@ -)
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To: DarrellZero

To get things done, the US hired the best rocket scientists available after WW II, a bunch of Germans with Nazi backgrounds. They designed the Saturn V and its most reliable predecessors for NASA.


19 posted on 06/02/2024 7:03:36 PM PDT by Rockingham
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To: logi_cal869

You’re welcome.


20 posted on 06/02/2024 7:05:17 PM PDT by Crusher138 ("Then conquer we must, for our cause it is just")
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