SSME Engine Maintenance

Something along these lines might be a good idea, but, ignoring politics
and economics, you still can't resurrect the original vehicle
as-it-was. Most of the parts are no longer made. Most of the
development documentation was destroyed. I understand the final plans
were preserved, but without the reasons behind the choices they aren't
that useful. Most of the people who worked on the Saturn are dead or
retired.

There is no way but forward, time only goes in one direction ...

On Friday, May 31, 2002, at 11:38 AM, Lucio de Souza Coelho wrote:

> - Wouldn't it be better for NASA to simply resurrect the Saturn V as
> a replacement for the Shuttle, instead of spending huge amounts in R&D
> for a
> brand new partially or fully reusable launcher? What is the politics and
> economics that prevents them from doing that?
>
> Lucio Coelho
>

The materials in one asteroid (the largest ) are sufficient to make
orbital space colonies with ~500 times the surface area of the Earth in
usable real estate. See http://lifesci3.arc.nasa.gov/SpaceSettlement/
for details.

Al Globus
CSC at NASA Ames Research Center
http://www.nas.nasa.gov/~globus/home.html