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Old August 17th 05, 02:03 PM
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Tooling for Saturn V has long since been destroyed, not untypical.
Would you expect GM to keep production jigs for a '57 Chevy?

What I think is worse is that the country has lost the collective
engineering know-how that built Apollo/Saturn. These men have either
retired or died. This is different from other fields of engineering
where there is evolutionary change. Apollo workers went pedal to metal
for about ten years and then were quickly laid off. A few managed to
stay in aerospace and others went on to work on defense projects but
many found work elsewhere. I'm worried that the next generation of
space engineers will have to "re-invent the wheel" to accomplish any
big projects.

Gene DiGennaro
Baltimore, Md.