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To: anymouse
I saw a program not too long ago that revealed that NASA was disassembling its last Saturn V rocket (on display in Huntsville) so that the agency can reverse engineer it for this new project. Although NASA has Von Braun's original plans for the Saturn V, many of the original contractors are out of business and taken their knowhow with them, and it seems that NASA has forgotten exactly how to build a moon rocket. They know what the individual parts are, but don't know how or why they work.

Truly sad....

32 posted on 01/20/2008 5:16:44 AM PST by Virginia Ridgerunner (“We must not forget that there is a war on and our troops are in the thick of it!” --Duncan Hunter)
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To: Virginia Ridgerunner
NASA has forgotten exactly how to build a moon rocket.

Too many of NASA's resources have been diverted to "Global Warming" and other issues that are not remotely related to their original mission.

54 posted on 01/20/2008 8:53:37 AM PST by Colorado Doug (Now I know how the Indians felt to be sold out for a few beads and trinkets)
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