Don't need to. We've got one in the garage...
And as for the moon.... trust me, I was there.
Posted on 10/24/2005 1:08:48 AM PDT by Nitro
I believe I'll pass on your generous offer. But thanks anyway.
They did already
http://www.nasa.gov/vision/universe/solarsystem/hubble_moon.html
The flag & rovers are too small to see
Are there telescopes that can see the flag and lunar rover on the Moon?
Why do pictures of distant galaxies have higher resolution than those of nearby planets?
Well one of the reasons is that the engineering drawings no longer exist. These were the days before CAD-CAM so all those prints had to be kept in an environmentally-controlled warehouse. Usually the gov't votes to stop preserving the tooling & drawings at the request of the manufacturers -- who would love to design & build the next generation.
You can make a lot more money on engineering studies than you can actually building what you designed...
If we still had the Saturn V hardware, it would be a possible to re-equip the system with new computers running modern code. If a B-52 can still fly after all these years there is no reason why a Saturn V could not also.
Your point about the Jigs, Tooling & Prints being destroyed is the real reason.
Don't need to. We've got one in the garage...
And as for the moon.... trust me, I was there.
"If we still had the Saturn V hardware, it would be a possible to re-equip the system with new computers running modern code. If a B-52 can still fly after all these years there is no reason why a Saturn V could not also."
Unlike the BUFF, the computers on the Saturn V are critical to safely flying the thing. Test-flying an expendable vehicle to make sure you coded it right is kind of pricey.
Everything is pricey when you're dealing with expendable rockets -- no argument there. But when you couple the capability & reliability of modern electronics with our more advanced abilities to simulate flights using supercomputers, I'd say it would be do-able. We're talking about a hypothetical-with-a-hypothetical, of course. None of this was ever going to happen.
You don't need the Hubble, you can see the remains of the lander with a regular toystore telescope. Go poking around the sites eventually you'll find for small circles arranged in a square, that the legs of a lander.
The plans still exist:
From http://tafkac.org/science/saturn_v_blueprints.html
WHAT HAPPENED TO THE SATURN V PLANS
Despite a widespread belief to the contrary, the Saturn V blueprints have not been lost. They are kept at Marshall Space Flight Center on microfilm.
The problem in re-creating the Saturn V is not finding the drawings, it is finding vendors who can supply mid-1960's vintage hardware (like guidance system components), and the fact that the launch pads and VAB have been converted to Space Shuttle use, so you have no place to launch from.
By the time you redesign to accommodate available hardware and re-modify the launch pads, you may as well have started from scratch with a clean sheet design.
Because this guy said so?
Wanted you guys to see this...
It was a hoax.
I watched them film it in my back yard in Central Pennsylvania just before I went blind from the moonshine!
Cost, retooling, and the technology is way out of date. Try to find all the companies that made the parts for that behemouth.
I worked with Apollo engineers and met some of the Apollo astronauts. Do you believe I helped fly a spacecraft to Venus? (I did)
Hubble cannot resolve those. Sorry.
It's not, but why do you say it is? It won't be rebuilt, but an even better launch system is already in late design phases.
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