A delegation led by Amazon's Jeff Bezos feasts on engines that were used in the first stage of Saturn 5 rockets in the Apollo launches

The engines lay at a depth of 5 km at the bottom of the Atlantic Ocean. It is not clear which flight or flights they belonged to

Last year, Amazon founder Jeff Bezos announced that he had located some of the Apollo F-1 engines and planned to use them. He and members of the Bezos expedition succeeded in making the engines that would help bring the Apollo astronauts to the moon and brought two such engines home, Bezos wrote in a message to NASA.
On the Bezos Expedition website, Bezos describes the rescue as an "impressive adventure" and he also uploaded a video describing the mission.

At NASA, by the way, they are happy. "This is a historic find and I applaud the team for their determination and care in preservation displayed during the recovery of these items from our first effort to launch humans into orbit." NASA Administrator Charles Bolden said in a statement he published. "We look forward to the restoration of the engines by Bezos' team, and appreciate his passion to provide these historic exhibits to the public."

There is no indication of which flight the engines belonged to. Last year when Bezos announced the operation he said it was Apollo 11 engines, but it may be difficult to tell which flight the engines belong to. In total, NASA launched 65 F-1 engines, five in each flight, which lifted 13 Saturn 5 rockets between 1967 and 1973.

A serial number may be found that will make it easier to identify the flight. Bezos testifies on his blog that they were still on the ship so they may be identified later.

As mentioned, five such engines were attached to the first stage of each of the Saturn 5 rockets, which depended on this combination of five engines to raise the approximately 3,400 tons of propulsion needed to lift the rocket from launch. Each of the engines was about 3.5 meters high and about 4 meters wide and weighed over 8 tons.

Bezos and his team members spent three weeks at sea and worked at a depth of almost 5 km below the surface of the sea and used robotic submarines for this.. "We found so much" Bezos wrote. "We saw an underwater wonderland - a magnificent sculpture garden of F-1 engines covered in mud that told the story of a fiery and violent end, which contributed to the Apollo program. We have photographed many beautiful objects in the depths of the sea and now we have also changed large pieces. Every piece we brought on board reminds me of the thousands of engineers who worked shoulder to shoulder to do what was previously considered impossible."

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