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Amazon founder Jeff Bezos plans to raise sunken Apollo 11 moon rocket engines from the ocean floor. Learn more about the Saturn V rocket's F-1 engines in this SPACE.com infographic.
Apollo 11's Saturn V rocket needed a lot of power to launch into orbit and reach the Moon. Here's what engines the spacecraft used to accomplish its mission.
Amazon.com founder Jeff Bezos has announced that one of the F-1 rocket engines found by his Bezos Expeditions was indeed part of the Apollo 11 Saturn V rocket that sent the first astronauts to ...
A rocket engine part salvaged at the bottom of the ocean by an exploration team backed by Amazon.com founder and CEO Jeff Bezos has been positively identified as belonging to the rocket that ...
Engine No. F-6049 didn’t fit properly on the Apollo 11 rocket, but it is invaluable now as a testing tool. Coates said a total of 85 F-1 engines were used on 17 Apollo flights without a single ...
Some of the most powerful U.S. rocket engines ever built have been raised from the depths off Florida. The Apollo-era motors are to be restored and put on display. Meanwhile, NASA has pulled ...
A Saturn V rocket engine that Amazon founder Jeff Bezos' team recovered from the ocean floor in March came from Apollo 11, the mission that first landed people on the moon, Bezos reported Friday.
Visit Apollo Mission Control, hear from Gene Cranz, Flight Director for Apollos 11 and 13, learn about rocket development and design and the development of computer technology used in rockets.
Despite claims last year that the engines were specifically from Apollo 11, Bezos now says the history of the engine parts he recovered may not be known.
In an image made from video NASA engineers test fire a key part of a rocket engine left over from the 1960s-era Apollo moon missions on Thursday, Jan. 24, 2013, in Huntsville, Ala. Engineers hope ...