> It was a sad, sad day when the US space program scrapped the Saturn 5
> booster system--a flawless heavy-lift rocket. My understanding is
> the blueprints were kept in a trailer and got trashed or burned, by
> accident or otherwise.
An urban legend. The blueprints for the Saturn 5 still exist, but it would
not be cost-effective to revive it, since the tooling used to build it has
long since been destroyed (and technology in many areas has improved quite a
bit since then.)
More info: http://www.urbanlegends.com/science/saturn_v_blueprints.html
> That just leaves the Russian Energia rocket,
> assuming they still have any and the politics can be worked out, or a
> new US rocket technology development.
The Energia is as dead as the Saturn V. Neither will be launching missions
to Europa.
Jeff Foust
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