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How NASA brought the monstrous F-1 “moon rocket” engine back to life

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NASA 's Space Launch System (SLS) intended to be an enormous heavy-lift system that will rival the Saturn V in size and capabilities.

The F-1 was the largest and most powerful liquid-fueled engine ever constructed.

The decision to use a pair of solid rocket boosters for the Space Shuttle was partly technical and partly political.

The SLS gave NASA the chance to do a total rethink.

A flight-ready F-1 had been swapped out from the launch vehicle destined for the to-be-canceled Apollo 19 mission and instead held in storage for decades .

The teardown allowed engineers to get some hands-on experience with the hardware.

The team initially wanted to build an accurate computer model of every component in the engine.

NASA turns a real rocket engine into a set of CAD files.

The team used a technique called "structured light scanning" to model the F-1 engine.

The process was done by Shape Fidelity , a company that specializes in the technique.

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