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Re: Some good news for a change, maybe?
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lugnet.off-topic.debate
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Wed, 23 Jun 2004 13:31:15 GMT
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In lugnet.off-topic.debate, J. Spencer Rezkalla wrote:
> In lugnet.off-topic.debate, Larry Pieniazek wrote:
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> > All of the Saturn tooling is no more.
(I should have said 'and infrastructure')
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> > NASA admitted they did that on purpose to "focus efforts on the shuttle".
> > Arguably the Saturns would have been really great Big Dumb Boosters if heavy
> > lift was something that NASA was really interested in.
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> Well of course they did. Is there any reason to spend money to preserve and
> maintain the tooling viability for a rocket that can no longer be launched?
Nope. But if you get rid of one element then it becomes easier to justify
getting rid of the rest. The tooling was just the last thing to go in a whole
sorry parade of wanton waste and destruction.
> All
> the existing Saturn launch infrastructure was modified for shuttle use. The
> launch towers are gone, the mobile service structure, extensive mods in the VAB,
> and a bunch of other geek level stuff.
Each and every one a bad decision. You're making my point for me. NASA wanted to
be shut of the Saturn any way it could, and it's a typical bureacratic tactic to
get rid of (or build) one thing that no one will notice, then use that as
justification for the next, till you've got the whole thing gone (or built, as
the case may be)
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| (...) This whole tooling issue reminds me about the destruction of the early Lego moulds. (...) If they had kept this stuff, I expect their critics would have harangued them for wasting tax payer’s money maintaining and storing obsolete equipment. (...) (20 years ago, 23-Jun-04, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
| | | Re: Some good news for a change, maybe?
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| (...) Did it? Wasn't it Congress who wasn't too keen on buying more Saturns and cut the remaining moon missions and all the cool future Apollo applications projects that NASA DID want. The shuttle was then sold as a way to get more bang-for-the-buck (...) (20 years ago, 23-Jun-04, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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| (...) Well of course they did. Is there any reason to spend money to preserve and maintain the tooling viability for a rocket that can no longer be launched? All the existing Saturn launch infrastructure was modified for shuttle use. The launch (...) (20 years ago, 23-Jun-04, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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