Salvage Apollo airship engines on the ocean floor

The Apollo submarine's submerged rocket engine has been salvaged by the expedition team of the founder of retailer Amazone.com, Jeff Bezos.

Jeff Bezos announced on his website: 'We discovered a lot. We saw an underwater wonderland, an incredible sculpture with a distorted F1 engine garden, reminding the story of the intense outcome of the will for the Apollo program. '

Apollo spacecraft under the sea

According to Bezos, these engines are located at a depth of 4,270m, in the waters off Cape Carnaveral, in the state of Florida.

About a year ago, Bezos announced that his private expedition had positioned the deep-sea old equipment he thought was the rocket engines of the Appollo 11 spacecraft launched in 1969 - with a mission. Put people on the moon for the first time.

Engine of Apollo spacecraft on the seabed

The salvaged Apollo spacecraft engine

Charles Bolden, leader of the US Space and Aeronautics Agency (NASA), announced March 20: "Nearly a year ago, Jeff Bezos told us about the plan to salvage F1 missiles. We shared his excitement and the expedition team when they announced the salvation of 2 of the first Saturn V missile engines deep in the Atlantic bottom. '

When the engines of the Saturn V boosters with the Apollo orbit and moon mission were used, five F1 engines fell into the Atlantic and it was thought to be forever Located in the sea.

Apollo spacecraft engine

Previously, Bezos announced that when two F1 engines were salvaged, he would display one at The Museum of Flight in Seattle, near the commercial space company Blue Origin of Bezos and the Amazon Group.