(May 24, 2020 at 1:44 pm)BrianSoddingBoru4 Wrote: NASA wouldn’t be in this mess if some numbwit hadn’t scrapped the Saturn V plans.
Boru
Saturn V was not exactly a bread and butter carrier rocket suitable for supporting a sustainable manned space program.
A proper rocket in that category would Be rather smaller than the Saturn IB.
The Apollo program didn’t really bequeath a highly suitable set of hardware for sustained manned space program.