In article 0008c5bf-78d9-4547-8488-820717708d69
@k6g2000yqf.googlegroups.com, says...

On Jan 27, 1:35*pm, Brian Thorn wrote:
On Sun, 27 Jan 2013 07:48:00 -0800 (PST), bob haller
wrote:

wouldnt it be something if nasa decided to go back and use the F1
engine on a future booster

You do understand that's the point of this test, right?

yeah but doing so will be futher proof ending the saturn family was a
big mistake

It would do no such thing. SLS with advanced liquid boosters would not
be anything like Saturn V. Heck, it wouldn't even look the same, so
anyone with half a brain could tell them apart.

Jeff
--
"the perennial claim that hypersonic airbreathing propulsion would
magically make space launch cheaper is nonsense -- LOX is much cheaper
than advanced airbreathing engines, and so are the tanks to put it in
and the extra thrust to carry it." - Henry Spencer