Two mammoth rocket engines that helped boost Apollo astronauts
to the moon have been fished out of the Atlantic near Cape
Canaveral. An expedition led by Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos pulled up
the engines from almost 3 miles below the ocean's surface and is
headed back to Brevard County after three weeks at sea. Bezos
and NASA announced the recovery on Wednesday. Remotely operated
vehicles worked at a depth of more than 14,000 feet to find
components of two flown F-1 engines. Crews also found a Saturn V
stage structure, thrust chamber and fuel manifold. The sunken
engines were part of the mighty Saturn V rocket used to fly
astronauts such as Neil Armstrong, John Young and Gene Cernan to
the moon during the 1960s and 1970s. After liftoff, they fell
into the ocean as planned. The engines are the property of NASA.
The space agency congratulated Bezos on his efforts. Bezos's
goal is to reassemble two F-1 engines for display to honor the
workers of Apollo. Bezos' space company, Blue Origins, has a
NASA contract to develo