Apollo Saturn V Engines, recovered from the bottom of the […]

Apollo Saturn V Engines, recovered from the bottom of the sea,

It’s incredible that Bezos Expeditions found these thrust chambers after years of robotic sub searching. The Apollo exhibit recently opened at the Seattle Museum of Flight, with the first public display of these artifacts.

These F-1 engines were the biggest, most powerful engine ever-made, lifting the 36-story skyscraper of a Saturn V up 40 miles before detaching, and crashing back into the Atlantic ocean at 5,000 MPH. They sank to depths greater than that of the Titanic. And there they rested for 43 years until a robotic search party finally found them.

I wrote to Bezos as he was at sea. Here is the HD video of the robotic recovery at a depth of 14,000 feet: https://dg9yyrvzimtaq.cloudfront.net/Video1.mp4

Jeff: “We on the team were often struck by poetic echoes of the lunar missions. The buoyancy of the ROVs looks every bit like microgravity. The blackness of the horizon. The gray and colorless ocean floor. Only the occasional deep sea fish broke the illusion.”

Exhibit: http://www.museumofflight.org/Exhibits/Apollo