Yep, we haven't lost the tech, just the in-house skills. Each Saturn V engine had an absolutely insane number of extremely fine welds by master welders. Welding is an art form, and we definitely don't have the same number of welders we used to.
That said, we could potentially replace some of that with new fab techniques. But we probably couldn't do it the same way we did.
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Yep, we haven't lost the tech, just the in-house skills. Each Saturn V engine had an absolutely insane number of extremely fine welds by master welders. Welding is an art form, and we definitely don't have the same number of welders we used to.
That said, we could potentially replace some of that with new fab techniques. But we probably couldn't do it the same way we did.