[Knitebane]

Have you seen a laser beam reflected from the moon?

I have. Most observatories have the equipment.

Why is it that re-building the Saturn-5 is impossible today?

Money.

Or, to be more precise, it's not impossible, just pointless.

Technology as advanced considerably since the 1960's. NASA has become a political tool instead of a military organization and is thrashing about for a mission, and bleeding funds while doing it.

If we had sufficient reason to need a booster with the capability of the Saturn V, Northrop/Grumman or Boeing would have no trouble building one once properly funded to do so.

[Nitro]

Why is it that re-building the Saturn-5 is impossible today? Money.

Check again, supposedly the plans have been lost??? The single greatest accomplishment of man off earth and the plans are lost??

We better get a new crew in at the National Archives.

They also lost Kennedy's brain.