Posted on 06/02/2024 6:20:42 PM PDT by daniel1212
The Saturn V was, and still is, the largest object to leave the surface of the Earth. At 363 feet in height -- or over 30 stories tall -- the rocket weighed 6.3 million pounds, about the weight of...50 Boeing 747s...
The rocket was the loudest creation made by human hands, except for the cacophony created by nuclear explosions. ...The five rocket engines of the Saturn V's first stage were the most powerful ever built...requiring 7.7 million pounds of force...
To house the Saturn V, NASA built the Vertical Assembly Building (VAB) at Kennedy Space Center, which remains one of the world's largest buildings, covering almost eight acres. The VAB's four mammoth doors, 456 feet in height, are the largest ever made...
Thirteen went into space. Twelve were used in the Apollo missions, 10 of which carried astronauts and six of which took men to the moon. The last Saturn V to fly was used for the Skylab program in May 1973.
Remarkably, every Saturn V launch was successful. Two missions suffered in-flight problems including engine cutoffs, but these were overcome, resulting in successful outcomes...
The Saturn program's dispersed research, production and testing facilities, spread all over the country, presented a major logistics and quality-control obstacle. Imagine building a piece of a puzzle at various locations and then hoping all the pieces would fit together without a problem. Chances for success seemed dependent on too many variables...
Facing a future of Soviet scientific dominance, America was able to move with a purpose...The scope and magnitude of building and launching the Saturn V rocket is an example of supply chain management at its finest.... harness the energies of 400,000 engineers, scientists, technicians and supply chain professionals...
But when SpaceX works out the kinks with Atarship, it will be a better heavy-lift booster to Saturn V.
Every copy? No Chinese workers in document control?
Another aspect of the overall progressive decline in the basic character of America, with its spiritual, moral and familial declension, from my generation (and me) onward. Imagine America's Founders being from modern generations.
Related: https://americanmind.org/salvo/why-johnny-cant-build/
Indeed.
You remember wrong - I’ve been in the factory - it was build by Martin Marietta in Denver, Col.
Really, an amazing accomplishment!
The “you’re welcome” was a recognition that my grandpa was highly involved in Operation Paperclip. He did lots of…interesting things.
There is a photo of him sitting next to Marcos on the plane when he was evacuated from the Philippines.
He worked extensively “building breweries” in South America right after WWII and, a few years later, built breweries in the USSR and China.
We will never know everything he did, but through his actions I know we beat the Soviets to the moon.
They should have “beat” the Soviets infesting America, most of our problems today can be laid at the feet of the collectivist totalitarians. In retrospect it looks strange to deploy 500,000 troops to the other side of the world, whilst the termites were at home making the Long March through the institutions. Nazis were Socialists too, and absolutely without scruples or morals or a history of democratic governance.
The shit the spook agencies were doing in the 1950s belies the calm exterior of the decade. I sincerely doubt the turbulent, revolutionary 1960s was any sort of organic grass roots affair. It was engineered, and America never recovered.
Chinese workers weren’t a thing in the 60’s and 70’s. There are interviews where people asking “why did we quit going to the moon”? The answer was, they don’t know how to build the Saturn 5 anymore, the plans have been lost.
Just a ‘little’ omission. /s
I appreciate what your GP did, preventing them from going to our enemies, but it changes nothing in the root of my comment.
(Btw, brewery is a clever cover...)
I once was contracted to speed an excel-based material requirements planning (MRP) tool that took 3-hours to run. It was an extreme example of “spaghetti code.” I quickly decided I should not even try to fix the code. Instead, I salvaged some of the logic and did a re-write in far less time than fixing it. If I recall correctly, I got the calculation time down to 10 minutes
Glad that you can do this. For me it would be like translating Klingon.
Why Does SpaceX Use 33 Engines While NASA Used Just 5?
The race to the moon is back on, but why does SpaceX’s Starship & super heavy booster need 33 engines when NASA’s Saturn V rocket, which went to the moon six times 55 years ago only needed five. We look at what has changed since then and why many smaller engines and all the extra complexity that comes with them seem to be the way forward for the modern space industry.
Written, Researched, and Presented by Paul Shillito - The Curious Droid
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=okK7oSTe2EQ
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