A year after vowing to send a team into the ocean to find F-1
engines from the historic Apollo 11 moon launch, Bezos announced
Wednesday that the team had recovered F-1 engine parts. Because
many original serial numbers are missing or partially missing,
it was unclear if they actually came from the Apollo 11 mission.
Calling it an “incredible adventure,” the billionaire said the
team had just finished three weeks at sea, working nearly three
miles below the surface of the Atlantic Ocean. “We’ve seen an
underwater wonderland — an incredible sculpture garden of
twisted F-1 engines that tells the story of a fiery and violent
end, one that serves testament to the Apollo program,” Bezos
said in a post on his Bezos Expeditions blog. “We photographed
many beautiful objects in situ and have now recovered many prime
pieces. Each piece we bring on deck conjures for me the
thousands of engineers who worked together back then to do what
for all time had been thought surely impossible.” Bezos said
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