/sci/ - Science & Math

>>10594111
>Maybe using the Saturn design as a template, and using more modern technologies to replicate it today could be doable.
This is a winner right here. Don't try and make a copy of the Saturn V, but take the best bits of it and realize them using today's technology.

Like, I want to impress upon everyone here just how much better and precise modern manufacturing is than it is in the 60s. The computerization of everything means you don't even really need to try that hard for good tolerances any more. Parts that used to be needed to be measured by hand and corrected to fit into tolerances after being manufactured can now pretty much be thrown straight onto the assembly with nothing more than a cursory check. We're REALLY good at building things precise the first time. Way better than we were in the 60s.

The F1B is interesting, because it's basically how we'd build an F1 today. You remove the exhaust being injected into the chamber and just dump it off the side to simplify the engine bell. You get rid of all the tiny parts that used to be made by hand and replace them with big assemblies manufactured in lathes, mills, and 3d printers. In the end, you get a rocket with maybe 95% percent the efficiency at 10% the complexity and amount of parts at maybe about 50% of the original price. That's a winning formula right there.

tfw

>>10379455
Why not indeed...

>>8099228
>What has changed in rocket technology since Sputnik?

F-1B is best engine!

>>7514551
Pic related

>NASA says Boeing has been awarded a $2.8 billion contract to develop the giant first stage of the space agency's planned Space Launch System rocket.

>The huge, 20-story-tall booster is seen as the foundation of NASA's heavy lift rocket system meant to take astronauts back to the moon and beyond into deep space.

>Under the contract Boeing will also develop the avionics for the booster, set to be even more powerful than the legendary Saturn 5 rocket that took the first astronauts to the moon, company officials said.

>"Our teams have dedicated themselves to ensuring that the SLS -- the largest ever -- will be built safely, affordably and on time," Virginia Barnes, Boeing's Space Launch System (SLS) VP and program manager, said in a statement.

>The first test launch of an SLS rocket, carrying an unmanned Orion crew capsule, is set for 2017, and a second flight carrying astronauts aboard the Orion is planned to take place in 2021, NASA says.

Source: http://www.techtimes.com/articles/9739/20140704/boeing-tapped-build-2-8b-space-launch-system-rocket.htm

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jXvsi7DRyPI
GET HYPED FOR THE BIGGEST SUCCESS IN HUMAN SPACEFLIGHT!

I wonder if we could use that asteroid to test mining operations.