How does Amazon’s founder spend his down time? Catching up on
email in the middle of the Atlantic while monitoring the
progress of his crew recovering historic space artifacts from
the bottom of the ocean. Jeff Bezos reports this morning that
his Bezos Expeditions has recovered significant pieces of two
F-1 rocket engines that were used to launch rockets into space
on the landmark Apollo missions, before plunging into the ocean.
Bezos said previously that he believed the engines were from the
historic Apollo 11 mission that landed the first humans on the
Moon in 1969 — but he specifically didn’t say Apollo 11 in his
post this morning, and there is a risk that the engines were
from a different Apollo mission. He writes, “Many of the
original serial numbers are missing or partially missing, which
is going to make mission identification difficult. We might see
more during restoration. The objects themselves are gorgeous.”
Bezos adds, “We’re bringing home enough major components to
fashion displays of two flown F