Boy, I'm glad I joined this message board *after* this guy had his fun and got banned. [img]/phpBB/images/smiles/icon_wink.gif[/img]

It saddens me to see a magnificent piece of engineering like the mighty Saturn V be denigrated so. Saturn V flew. That is an indisputable fact that can be attested to by literally millions of eye-witnesses with no connection to NASA. I know one person who has watched Shuttle launches from ninety miles away. Saturn would have been visible from the same range. Is the no moonie claiming they were all hushed up? Of course not. Like all no-moonies, he doesn't really understand what he's claiming.

I find it interesting that SaturnV knew enough about the Soviet N-1 moon rocket to know that it had "30 nozzles" as he put it. (More accurately, it had 30 engines. Not all rockets have the same number of engines as nozzles. The Russian RD-180 engine, for instance, has two nozzles but one combustion chamber.) He seems to be claiming that N-1 was superior to Saturn V for this reason, but in fact it was the sheer number of engines on N-1 which caused its demise; it was simply too complicated to work with the available technology. Saturn Vs five powerful engines were far more reliable.