Posted on 04/19/2023 9:37:38 AM PDT by Red Badger
That raises an interesting point.
The famous F-1 engines that powered the Saturn-V first stage were complicated and very much hand-crafted rather than manufactured. In the late '60s or very early '70s, NASA ordered the design of an F-1A engine, with the goal of simplifying it. The resulting design was both simpler and somewhat more powerful than the original F-1. Apollo got canceled, and the F-1A died with it. Fast forward to 2009(ish?) and NASA is looking to go back to Luna. So ... they commission a small group to look at building a new engine, based on the F-1. The group looked at drawings and artifacts, and went to work. They had on paper an engine designated F-1B. It looked an awful lot like the proposed F-1A, but geared toward the 21st Century American industrial base. Funny how things turned out. Congress decreed that SLS must use left-over shuttle technology ... and the F1-B died.
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