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From: rbk@hpctdls.HP.COM (Richard Katz)
Newsgroups: sci.space
Subject: Re: heavylift launchers
Message-ID: <3880003@hpctdls.HP.COM>
Date: 8 Mar 89 15:50:24 GMT
References: <1989Mar3.203340.5555@utzoo.uucp>
Organization: Hewlett-Packard CTD, Colo. Spgs.
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In article <240aa600@ralf> Ralf.Brown@B.GP.CS.CMU.EDU writes:
>... After several years of study, it will now take five years to make
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>an operational system of mostly-existing components.  The Saturn V was
>designed and built from scratch in rather less than five years--*without*
>years of study.

I remember reading a couple of years ago that it would take over 10
years to redevelop the Saturn V - I think this was an AW&ST article.
Anyways, you can't engineer things today nearly as fast as in the 60's
as a result of NASA's beaurocracy (yeah, I can't spell).  

rich katz
hewlett packard
p o box 7050
colorado springs, co
80933-7050

email: rbk@hpctdlb.hp.com