Newsgroups: sci.space.shuttle
Path: utzoo!henry
From: henry@utzoo.uucp (Henry Spencer)
Subject: Re: What's Wrong with this Picture?
Message-ID: <1988Oct4.165927.16555@utzoo.uucp>
Organization: U of Toronto Zoology
References: <6981@ihlpl.ATT.COM> <1988Oct2.021158.15076@utzoo.uucp> <5705@killer.DALLAS.TX.US> <7016@ihlpl.ATT.COM>
Date: Tue, 4 Oct 88 16:59:27 GMT

In article <7016@ihlpl.ATT.COM> knudsen@ihlpl.ATT.COM (Knudsen) writes:
>If we had Saturn V's, I'm not so sure that strapping engineless
>orbiters to them would be such a bad idea.  Although I'd sure work on
>a parachute scheme to get those F1 1st-stage engines back.

Serious attention was given to the idea of making later Saturn V first
stages recoverable.  When the production run was cut to 15, such ideas
were shelved.
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