To: XBob
Finding the original manufacturer is irrelevent for all intents and purposes. The production lines have been closed. Rocketdyne and the other Sub's would simply go to their favorite vendors to build parts to the SCD.
They didn't exactly right SCD's for off the shelf stuff, that would have made too much sense.
Building the Saturn 5 wouldn't be impossible, getting through NASA Red Tape might be.
To: Dead Dog
120 - "Rocketdyne and the other Sub's would simply go to their favorite vendors to build parts to the SCD."
Rocketdyne is one of the very few major contractors/subcontractors which even sort of intact, and I think it is now a part of Boeing. But there were thousands of other vendors and suppliers, most of which don't exist any more, nor do their technologies, techniques, and expertice.
132 posted on
01/09/2004 3:27:08 PM PST by
XBob
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