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.
“The First Public Display of a Rocket Engine that Launched Apollo to the Moon.
How do you lift a skyscraper, balance it like a pencil on your finger, accelerate it fast enough to break the pull of gravity, and keep the three occupants on the top floor comfortable, safe and sound? And not just once, but as many times as we want. That was the task facing rocket scientists in the early 1960s. They responded with the biggest, most powerful engine ever-made—the F-1, and put five of them at the bottom of the biggest rocket ever-made—the Saturn V. And it worked every time.
The volcanic first stage lifted a 36-story Saturn V Moon rocket off of the launch pad and accelerated it up the first 40 miles of flight. Fuel spent, the first stage and its F-1 engines detached from the Saturn V as the upper stages continued on Apollo’s journey to space. And the first stage—this thunderous, fire-breathing, breath-taking tower of tech perfection fell into oblivion. Job done. Imagine the splash it made as it fell from space and into Atlantic Ocean. While Apollo reached orbit, the engines that got it there were already forgotten, sinking deeper than the Titanic. They lay lost at the bottom of the sea for 43 years until discovered and raised by Seattle-based Bezos Expeditions in 2013.”
— From www.museumofflight.org/Exhibits/Apollo
And the hypergolic fuel manifold from Apollo 12 
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