The Saturn V engines being impossible to reverse engineer always seemed suspicious to me. I think it's more about restarting the rocket program with current tec

The Saturn V engines being impossible to reverse engineer always seemed suspicious to me. I think it's more about restarting the rocket program with current technology instead of reviving old rocket tech. Or maybe a budget cut pretext "it's impossible, why spend money on it?". Edit: commented before seeing the link, that's actually their point 3: > With the help of powerful computers and new technologies, we can do a better job today (if we can find enough money to do that). With the examination of Rocketdyne F-1 engines from museums and storage, today’s engineers did discover enough to create a new F-1B engine should it ever be built. Using modern computing modeling and manufacturing techniques, the new engine could not only be more efficient, it would be just as powerful as the updated but unflown F-1A at 1.8 million pounds of thrust. More importantly, it would reduce the number of manufactured parts from around 5,600 to just 40! And while increasing its reliability and decreasing costs in the process.