Aug 142019
 

NASA Giving Away Apollo-Era Saturn Rocket to Anyone who Wants It

It’s free to a good home. Just pay the modest $250,000 shipping fee.

I have an obvious choice: SpaceX. The Saturn S-1 stage was, as we all know, originally intended to be recovered after flight via parachutes with an ocean splashdown; this option was eliminated as a mass and cost savings measure, as were plans to add Rogallo wings or parafoils for a horizontal runway landing.  I suggest that SpaceX get this stage, refurb it, fix it up and fly it, using one of the several proposed recovery methods.

Why? Because it would be cool, that’s why.

 

 

 

 Posted by at 4:39 pm