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This is something that has fascinated me. Media for a very long time cannibalized the Saturn V rocket long after production ended and it would never return, stopping maybe only by 1990. In the film "Capricorn One" from 1978, they set off for Mars in a Saturn V. The "Major Tom" music video had a Saturn V as the rocket via stock footage. MTV had the Moon landing bumper. And there's ones I can't recall at the moment.

That raises the interest in my head of, if the Saturn V had continued production and say there were two Saturn V launches a year, how long could that class of rocket last? At what point would they change to something else? Would they even need to change to something else? I'm certainly only of limited knowledge on this topic, so for all I know they could just refine and update the technology as time went by.
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