Will the Saturn V engine fly again?

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Blimey Id love to see one of these motors fire again in anger!



WASHINGTON -- Dynetics and Pratt & Whitney Rocketdyne announced Wednesday they are teaming up to resurrect the Saturn 5 rocket's mighty F-1 engine to power NASA's planned heavy-lift launch vehicle, saying the Apollo-era engine will offer significantly more performance than solid-fueled boosters currently under development.

Full story here

-http://www.spaceflightnow.com/news/n1204/18dynetics/


The film from the pad cameras for the Saturn V launches are incredible. :)
 

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Analoguesat said:
Blimey Id love to see one of these motors fire again in anger!

Give me around £55k and I'll build you one.

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Hehe. I'd like to build one of those :D
 

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