> Further, we went, as a whole people, from launching a small, 184-pound
> artificial moon to landing on the Moon in less than 12 years

And years later as we draw up plans for the Space Station, and consider
the dozens of shuttle launches required to get the hardware up there to
construct it, America longs for a heavy-launch booster like the
marvelous Saturn V that launched Apollo to the moon, especially after
the brief appearance of the Soviet Energia booster.  But in typical
Dilbert fashion, the tooling for the Saturn-V and most importantly the
J1 engines has been, umm, "lost or misplaced".

Remember that next time you ponder discarding those "old backup tapes".

Jeff Kell <[log in to unmask]>