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Old 09-02-2012, 07:04 AM
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Originally Posted by davidmash View Post
3. The fuel was so corrosive that the.engines had to be.entirely rebuilt after each test. Think about that for a second. The engines that went to space were never tested after they were rebuilt.
As far as I can remember, no part of the Saturn vehicles was reused. That was one of the revolutionary things about the shuttle project was that the vehicle and SRB's were recovered and reused after each mission.
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