Bezos Salvage Team Plucks Apollo Rocket Engines from Atlantic

From PC Magazine:

A salvage expedition funded by Amazon founder and CEO Jeff Bezos on Wednesday reported that it had successfully recovered a pair of Apollo Program rocket engines from the floor of the Atlantic Ocean.

Warped from their flights and rusty from decades spent under the sea, the first-stage (S-IC) F1 engines (pictured) used for the Saturn 5 launches which sent astronauts to the Moon will be "restored and put on public display," according to Reuters.

Located several hundred miles off the east coast of the United States (see this cool GeoHack map identifying the location of S-IC wreckage from the Apollo missions), the engines remain the property of NASA. Bezos said when he announced the salvage mission last March that if one engine was recovered, the space agency would likely want it displayed at the Smithsonian but that he'd asked NASA to allow a subsequent recovery by his privately funded team to be housed at the Museum of Flight in Seattle, Wash., where Amazon is headquartered.

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