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<blockquote data-quote="Horwath" data-source="post: 8207240" data-attributes="member: 6801299">All of this is true and yes, many companies that produced parts for Saturn program do not exist anymore, but claims that it is impossible to make another rocket of that size and that trust just fuels the fire of conspiracy theorist that say that the whole Apollo program was staged. I am not even going to comment those folks <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f600.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":D" title="Big grin&nbsp; &nbsp; :D"&nbsp; data-smilie="8"data-shortname=":D" />But saying that today engineers cannot (re)make that machine with more than 50 additional years of global experience in rocketry in little insulting to those folks. Yes, todays version would not be a carbon copy of those made in 60s/70s as some things would have to made by new companies and some parts would made anew, and also some parts would be much better(and maybe cheaper) if made with todays technology.One fact is also true that, when you adjust for inflation, you can get 11-12 Atlas V launches for one Saturn V. And as we can see today NASA budget is 9× smaller than in the 60s we can see why they are even not trying to build one. Other reason is that they obviously decided that there is nothing new that can be found on Lunar surface to justify this huge cost.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Horwath, post: 8207240, member: 6801299"] All of this is true and yes, many companies that produced parts for Saturn program do not exist anymore, but claims that it is impossible to make another rocket of that size and that trust just fuels the fire of conspiracy theorist that say that the whole Apollo program was staged. I am not even going to comment those folks :D But saying that today engineers cannot (re)make that machine with more than 50 additional years of global experience in rocketry in little insulting to those folks. Yes, todays version would not be a carbon copy of those made in 60s/70s as some things would have to made by new companies and some parts would made anew, and also some parts would be much better(and maybe cheaper) if made with todays technology. One fact is also true that, when you adjust for inflation, you can get 11-12 Atlas V launches for one Saturn V. And as we can see today NASA budget is 9× smaller than in the 60s we can see why they are even not trying to build one. Other reason is that they obviously decided that there is nothing new that can be found on Lunar surface to justify this huge cost. [/QUOTE]

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