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molesworth:

--- Quote from: Jairo on March 31, 2022, 12:10:07 PM ---Thank you. That's pretty much what I expected.

The problem is trying to organize everything as a single piece, as it was conceived by parts.

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This is something the deniers can't seem to grasp. There never was a single "set of Saturn V blueprints" that someone could tuck under their arm and toddle off to a workshop to build one. They generally don't have any engineering experience and can't conceive of how a large, multi-partner engineering project would be run.

Abaddon:
Well let's see.

Boeing built the first stage.
North American built the second stage.
Douglas built the third stage.
Rocketdyne built the engines.
North American built the CSM.
Grumman built the LM.
Hamilton Standard built the space suits.

That's only seven, right?

Wrong.

Each of those had subcontractors/suppliers providing various subsystems.

In the end, there were tens of thousands of different companies involved.

smartcooky:
Just Looking ONLY at the Saturn V

Boeing - 1st stage (S-IC)
North American - Second stage (S-II), F1 Engines, J2 engines in the 2nd and 3rd stages
Douglas - Third Stage (S-IVB)
Arrowhead - Ducting
Flexonics - Flexible propellant feed lines
Bendix - Guidance components
IBM - Guidance components
Martin Marietta - Helium Bottles
Airesearch Ltd - LOX and Fuel valves
Avco - Component fabrication
Whittaker Controls - LOX and Fuel valves
Progressive Welders - Fabrication and component welding
RCA - Ground computer system
Cornell Aeronautical Laboratory (Calspan) - Rocket base heating research

And this list is not exhaustive. Here's more, from Saturn 1, 1B and V, including some of the above, and some I have never heard of...







 
 

Count Zero:
In "conspiracy world", The Government gave the contractors blueprints, which they mindlessly built either without noticing they wouldn't work, or not saying anything because all they cared about was a paycheck.  In reality, NASA only started with the desired/required capabilities and the contractors were the ones who produced the specific hardware drawings.  Tom Kelly's memoir about building the LM talks a lot about how big a job it was (and how manpower-intensive) for Grumman to crank-out the drawings that became the basis of fabrication and assembly.

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