When you?ve made as much money as Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos has, you?ve maybe earned the right to undertake some bizarre initiatives. For Bezos, the dream of finding the original Apollo 11 engines has been occupying part of his time for the last year. Working with a team of ?undersea pros,? Bezos has announced that he has found the massive F-1 engines that shot the first moon mission into orbit about 14,000 feet under the Atlantic Ocean. Best of all, he?s going to retrieve them.
The Saturn V rocket was a stunning, unreal 363-foot tall obelisk that weighed over 6 million pounds. You don?t get that into the sky with just any engine ? the F-1 rocket engine was capable of putting out 1.5 million pounds of thrust, or about 32 million horsepower. The F-1 is still the most powerful single-chamber liquid fuel rocket ever designed. The 19-foot tall F-1 engines were jettisoned early in each Apollo flight as the first stage separated, sending the rest of the launch vehicle on toward the moon.
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