European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - June 28, 1987, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Nasa n photo Saturn Trott out ceremony at min hell space flight Canter �3. Hunt is on for scattered blueprints of Saturn Moon rocket Saturn 5  now York times pocket bis1.ders eager to a the proven technology of the giant Saturn 5 Moon rocket have been frustrated because Long ago Bike prints and other documents were Scall ered a few even lost and All Iha old Dies jigs and tooling were sold As scrap Metal for pennies a Pound. The loss of part of the great Rochet s past was to be expected bul resurrecting that data has proven More difficult than some rocket builders expected. Private contractors and the space Agency Are studying everything that remains of the Saturn 5. The biggest launcher Ever built once the Story of the american space program. It was a Beautiful machine and much More Cost effective than the space ,1 said or. John s. Lewis a planetary scientist at the University of Arizona who advises the National aeronautics and space administration and has studied the development and use of the Saturn 5. Fat ten Otth giant rockets were built and ail but iwo of them were tired into space in the late 1960s and Early 1970s. Each could launch More than 10,000 pounds of payload into a Low Ortiz around Earth whereas a space shuttle in theory can lift 65,000 pounds. Today the two Earth bound Tatums Are on display As museum pieces at the Kennedy space Center in Florida and the Johnson space Center in Houston. Soon after the challenger disaster last year american companies began to seek out Saturn parts plans and looting in an a Forl to quickly create giant new rackets that could nil he void left by the grounding of the nation s shuttle sleet. To particular they searched for the Saturn f-1 engines the most powerful rocket engines Ever built each with 1 million pounds of thrust. Five of these made up the Saturn first stage and gave its name Saturn s. We started designing a vehicle within Days of the shuttle Accident said Gary Hudson president of Pacific american launch systems in Redwood City calif., a private company thai develops rockets Lor commercial use Hudson said his firm eventually found seven f-1 engines in flight capable status and was getting ready to buy and refurbish them. The Hughes aircraft company and the Boeing aerospace company considered collaborating on a giant rocket that would use two f-1 engines to launch 85 000 pounds into Tow orbit. The 205-fool-tall rocket was to be called the Jarvis after Gregory Jarvis a Hughes Engineer killed in the challenger disaster. But alter some investigation the companies dropped the idea. There were some problems in the documentation said Vincent a. Caluori head of advanced space transportation at Boeing aerospace in Seattle. Plus there was no infrastructure no tools no vendors. The whole thing was a Little too  designers would have to draw plans from existing engines said a Boeing Engineer who asked that he not be identified. We would have had to use a micrometer to get some of the specs to said. But engineers at the rocket Dyne division of Rockwell International the company that originally built the f-1 engine insisted that plans for the engine were essentially inlay although the tooling to make it was indeed sold As scrap As part of a regular government disposal program. Some blueprint or other materials could be gone said Joseph e. Erbs a Rockot Dyne Engineer who recently helped assess f-1 documentation. Bui we found the stuff we needed All of our planning our drawings and specifications and a lot of the looking drawings. When somebody says something is missing Iney re probably right. But we be got boxes and boxes of stuff basically everything needed to get started  Jim shall. A spokesman at the Marshall space flight Center in Huntsville ala., where the rocket was designed said that although the tooling was indeed gone Many of the blueprints remained. What we Don t have Here we have at a depository in Atlanta he said. In the past year Mai shall has performed a detailed inventory of its Saturn documents. J. R. Thompson the director of Marshall recently told a meeting of the american Institute of Aero Paulics and astronautics that the Saturn might one Day be resurrected As a big unmanned Booster rocket. The first fringes could occur in four to is years he said with an additional four years of work needed to assure High reliability. Caluori of Boeing said hts company was still studying the use of Saturn f-1 engines to create an even larger Booster rocket envisioned by Nasa and the defense department Lewis who has served on dozens of Nasa advisory panels said he suspected that Nasa allowed some Saturn expertise and tooling to be lost in the 1970 because the space Agency wanted no Competition for the space shuttle. The continuing presence of the Saturn boosters would have made it silly to build the shuttle so it was buried quickly and  he said. Another expert. G. Harry some. A retired rocket scientist who writes about space age history said it s a common practice in the aerospace Industry to sell the jigs and Dies. They take up factory space. You can t keep that sort of thing  but he said it was uncommon to Loose blueprints aerospace people Don t throw away  Luis Yolk Turol sunday june 28, 1987 the stars and stripes Page 17