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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 18:40:49 GMT
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In lugnet.off-topic.debate, Larry Pieniazek wrote:
> In lugnet.off-topic.debate, Bruce Schlickbernd wrote:
> > In lugnet.off-topic.debate, Larry Pieniazek wrote:
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> > What tooling have they destroyed?
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> All of the Saturn tooling is no more.
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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.
Costs money to store - does Ford still have the tooling for the Model T? And
let me express at least some skepticism regarding the alleged motivation you
attribute to NASA.
-->Bruce<--
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| (...) (URL) This> is interesting. "The Saturn 5 was also not cheap to operate... the launch cost of a single Saturn 5 at $431 million in 1967, or over $2.4 billion a launch in 2004 dollars... ...It’s not inconceivable that a new heavy-lift vehicle (...) (20 years ago, 23-Jun-04, to lugnet.off-topic.debate, FTX)
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| (...) All of the Saturn tooling is no more. 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. (20 years ago, 23-Jun-04, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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