Why Can't we Remake the Rocketdyne F1 Engine?

Curious DroidLength: 5 minutesSpace exploration & spaceflight

In brief

Short Curious Droid video on why NASA could not simply rebuild the Saturn V's Rocketdyne F-1 engine for the SLS boosters. It explains that the engines were hand-tailored and that much of the know-how was never documented, so the blueprints were not enough.