Apollo 11 Engines To Be Recovered from Atlantic Ocean Floor

Bethany Whitfield

Friday, March 30, 2012 at 08:35 PM ET

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** Saturn V during preparations for the 1969 launch**

Key Takeaways:

A team backed by Jeff Bezos has successfully located the F-1 engines of the historic Apollo 11 Saturn V rocket 14,000 feet deep in the Atlantic Ocean using deep-sea sonar.
The team plans a challenging retrieval operation for the 9-ton engines and is currently awaiting NASA's review of their proposal and potential assistance, as NASA legally owns the recovered artifacts.
Despite uncertainties about the engines' condition after decades in saltwater, Bezos has hinted at displaying them, potentially at the Museum of Flight in Seattle.

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A team backed by Amazon founder Jeff Bezos has found the F-1 engines of the Saturn V rocket that launched the historic Apollo 11 mission more than 50 years ago, and now is planning an attempt to retrieve one or more of the engines from the bottom of the Atlantic Ocean.

According to a statement by Bezos, the engines were found 14,000 feet below the surface of the Atlantic through the use of deep-sea sonar.