Apollo 11 F-1 rocket engines on found Atlantic floor

Avnut · **Joined:** Sun Oct 23, 2011 12:14 pm **Posts:** 93

Amazon founder Jeff Bezos says the five rocket engines that launched Apollo 11 to the moon have been found at the bottom of the Atlantic Ocean.

http://www.bezosexpeditions.com/engine-recovery.html

Pat Carry · **Posted:** Wed Mar 28, 2012 9:06 pm

Pretty darn interesting! Speaking of things on the ocean floor, James Cameron of Titanic fame went to the bottom of the Mariana's trench in the Pacific in a submersible the other day. I wonder if he found the B-32 Dominator that sunk there in 1945.

SaxMan · **Posted:** Wed Mar 28, 2012 9:19 pm

With all the Apollo launches following the same basic trajectory, how can they be so sure those F-1 engines belong to Apollo 11 and not one of the other moonshots? No matter which Apollo it was, it is still an impressive find.

Avnut · **Joined:** Sun Oct 23, 2011 12:14 pm **Posts:** 93

Finding and raising a B-32 would make a nice addition to a museum.

The Inspector · **Posted:** Wed Mar 28, 2012 10:19 pm

Already posted in the General Aviation Forum

APG85 · **Posted:** Wed Mar 28, 2012 10:29 pm

SaxMan wrote:

With all the Apollo launches following the same basic trajectory, how can they be so sure those F-1 engines belong to Apollo 11 and not one of the other moonshots? No matter which Apollo it was, it is still an impressive find.

NASA has a pretty good idea where the first stages of the Saturn V's came down (they tracked them). In addition, Pieces of Apollo 11's (it broke apart on it's way down due to aerodynamic forces) fell around a German ship with one piece actually landing on the ship. From this information, they have a pretty good idea of where the bulk of the booster remains are...

SaxMan · **Posted:** Thu Mar 29, 2012 5:52 pm

APG85 wrote:

NASA has a pretty good idea where the first stages of the Saturn V's came down (they tracked them). In addition, Pieces of Apollo 11's (it broke apart on it's way down due to aerodynamic forces) fell around a German ship with one piece actually landing on the ship. From this information, they have a pretty good idea of where the bulk of the booster remains are...

Wow. Impressive. What I love about this forum is that you learn something new almost every day.

Chappie · **Joined:** Wed Dec 19, 2007 9:40 am **Posts:** 987

Amazing. How can you raise something from nearly 3 miles down? :shock:

Chappie

cooper9411 · **Posted:** Thu Mar 29, 2012 8:11 pm

With todays technology anything can be done. Many years ago Howard Hughes had a ship built that was hollow on the inside but from all outward appearances looked like any other ship. But this ship was positioned over a Russian sub and raised it. :drinkers:

DouglasJockey · **Joined:** Sat Jan 07, 2012 11:59 pm **Posts:** 8

cooper9411 wrote:

With todays technology anything can be done. Many years ago Howard Hughes had a ship built that was hollow on the inside but from all outward appearances looked like any other ship. But this ship was positioned over a Russian sub and raised it. :drinkers:

I think it was called the Glomar Explorer. We had to get the codebooks and we did.....

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GSF_Explorer

An interesting read.

P51Mstg · **Joined:** Tue Jan 25, 2005 11:36 am **Posts:** 1202

Honestly, if they belong to NASA, let them rot..... They can spend the money if they want them back....

If you want to spend a zillion dollars, do something useful with the money. Make some new production WWII airplanes.... More Me-262s, a couple more FW-190Ds, P-39s, P-38s, a B-19.... For that matter some post WWII jets, build a few B-47s or another B58 (wow that would be a money pit there), or anything rather than spending enough money to pay for a week in the Afgan war on picking up a rotten piece of space memorabilia (which probably isn't going to make it to the surface intact anyways (the Russian sub didn't)........

Mark H

P51Mstg · **Joined:** Tue Jan 25, 2005 11:36 am **Posts:** 1202

Duplicate please delete

cooper9411 · **Posted:** Fri Mar 30, 2012 10:50 am

If anyone of us had that amount of money, we could what ever we wanted. He has all that money and he is doing what he wants. I agree NASA should foot the bill but they won't, they are to busy wasting millions on other "important" stuff. :drinkers:

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