Amazon CEO Plans to Recover Apollo 11 Rockets From Sea Floor

Adam Mann at Wired:

Billionaire Jeff Bezos announced plans to recover from the bottom of the Atlantic Ocean at least one of the F–1 engines that carried the Apollo 11 rocket into space.

Founder and CEO of Amazon.com, Bezos already has his hands in several extreme undertakings, such as the private spaceflight company Blue Origin.

Bezos reported March 28 on his blog that a team of engineers has recently used state-of-the-art deep-sea sonar and found the Apollo 11 engines lying 14,000 feet below the ocean’s surface. He wrote that he is currently making plans to raise them.

The space nerd in me is excited. I hope Bezos is successful.