Subj : NASA, shuttle, anyone?
To   : CHARLES ANGELICH
From : WAYNE CHIRNSIDE
Date : Wed Aug 24 2005 01:07 am

-> WC> They're out to lunch. I've heard no copy of the plans for
-> WC> that Saturn 5 were retained :-( Not positive that's factual. 

-> Somehow that they tossed the plans doesn't surprise me anymore.

Doesn't surprise me either but it's a great loss to history IMO.

In the race to beat the Russians ( who were unknown to us already out of
the race) the first Saturn V wasn't tested stage by stage
but as an entire vehicle.
This apparently flabbergasted some of our immigrant German rocket
scientists.

It flew first time out though ( unmanned), flawlessly.
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