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To: Tallguy

"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.


88 posted on 10/24/2005 8:11:48 AM PDT by BeHoldAPaleHorse (MORE COWBELL! MORE COWBELL! (CLANK-CLANK-CLANK))
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To: BeHoldAPaleHorse
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.

89 posted on 10/24/2005 8:38:42 AM PDT by Tallguy
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