Back To the Future At NASA?

[Taxcutter]

Resurrecting the mighty F-1 engines used by the Saturn V and the Apollo missions.

http://arstechnica.com/science/2013/...-back-to-life/

I thought this was interesting in the team had to plow through the different engineering cultures of 1968 and 2012.

[Cigar]

That's one Big Ass Engine

[Peter1469]

That is a heavy lift rocket engine. We need to use those to get stuff into orbit and then built better stuff there. That was the problem with the Space Shuttle- it was a jack of all trades, and cost way too much.

[Taxcutter]

They'll have to re-establish understanding of the F-1 and then figure how to make it economically (the F-1s were hand-built by real craftsmen) in order to move giant payloads into orbit.