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23. But the Saturn V is four decades old.

The main engines were great, the largest ever built, even today. But there's no way that the Saturn V will ever be resurrected. Almost none of the original engineers are still alive. All that's left are the design documents, which if they even exist, only provide a path to forty year old tech.

I understand that the most awesome exhibit at Cape Canaveral is the Saturn V on display. It was undoubtedly one of human-kind's greatest technological achievements. Fucking 30+ stories tall! A god damned sky scraper that launches into space.

Nobody has that now. Not even NASA. It will take years to do it again. And that's the only way it can be done. The Saturn V is dead. Wish we were using its offspring now. Regretfully, that isn't so.

We can learn by the Saturn V, but we cannot, and should not, reproduce it. That's what science is about.