In message et, "Greg
D. Moore (Strider)" writes

wrote in message
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I knew that it's a urban myth that the Saturn 5 blueprints were
destroyed, but lately, I've seen in several space history forums on
the net, that the molds for the Saturn 5 were ordered by Nixon to be
destroyed......is this true? Joe

"Sorta"

Basically a lot of the jigs etc were destroyed.

They're large and expensive to store. And as there were no plans to build
more and the government wasn't willing to pay for equipment they didn't plan
on using, they ordered them destroyed.

This is far from uncommon. There's no conspiracy here if that's what the
other forums are implying.

Maybe not, but it could still be a conscious decision to make it
impossible to revive the programme. Like the destruction of the SR-71
jigs, which I think was mentioned here a while ago.
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