[SunkenCiv]

The tooling and the drawings and so forth were not destroyed. I wonder if that particular bit of lore grew out of the story about how Lyndon Johnson had the dies and tooling destroyed for the SR-71?

Saturn 5 Blueprints Safely in Storage

[Darksheare]

Good to hear, thanks!

[Lancer_N3502A]

I suspect that not only does the Marshall Space Flight Center have them, but there are probably copies somewhere in the Smithsonian and in the National Archives. Next to the Russian Energia, the Saturn V is the most powerful rocket ever built.

The S-1 booster highly refined kerosene and oxygen giving it roughly 2/3 the ISP of the STS's LH/O2. BUT...imagine rebuilding the S-1 booster using LH and O2? Would probably throw 500 tons into space...8-).

[Calvin Locke]

Never heard the one about the SR-71. Supposedly, the metalurgy recipe for the Blackbird's J58 engine was lost,
as well as the one for battleship armor (and the capability to roll the thickness as a matter of progress and economics).

SecDef Cheney did require the F14 tooling destroyed. Now that was a stroke of genius. Clinton couldn't let that stuff be
sold to foreign adversaries for campaign/library contributions....

[ovrtaxt]

I wonder if that particular bit of lore grew out of the story about how Lyndon Johnson had the dies and tooling destroyed for the SR-71?

I don't buy that for a second.