[MichaelCorleone]

I don’t know if this is part of what you’re referring to, but supposedly the blueprints to the F1 engine that powered the booster part of the Saturn V were destroyed.

Supposedly they are gone forever.

I’d sooner buy the Brooklyn Bridge than believe that one.

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That's part of it. These knuckleheads insist we simply don't have the technology or the ability to do it again.

I still know how to use a slide rule, but few do these days, and how could we possibly do it again without slide rules and vacuum tubes????</knucklehead>

The real problem is every penny spent on expanding humankind's reach and knowledge is a penny that can't be used to buy inner city votes. Knuckleheads gotta knuckle-drag...

[TLOne]

“I don’t know if this is part of what you’re referring to, but supposedly the blueprints to the F1 engine that powered the booster part of the Saturn V were destroyed.

Supposedly they are gone forever.

I’d sooner buy the Brooklyn Bridge than believe that one.”

The plans are all there and isn’t the main issue. The F1 engines were hand built and the people who learned all the tricks of how to fabricate them are long retired or deceased. Building a completely new engine using modern tools and techniques is easier than trying to recreate a handcrafted engine designed by sliderule.