Machine discovery of Apollo 11 moon mission
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| Machine discovery of Apollo 11 moon mission |
When men stepped onto the moon 44 in years past, the F-1
engines that got them there went in the other direction: under the sea. Now
Amazon.com founder and CEO Jeff Bezos says he%u2019s found aspects of a pair of
them.
"44 years ago tomorrow Neil Armstrong stepped to the
moon, and now we have recovered a vital technological marvel that managed to
get all possible,%u201D Bezos wrote in his blog.
The online retail king continues to be sponsoring a salvage
pursuit to dredge up artifacts from your Apollo 11 mission which are jettisoned
through the launch into space.
The Amazon leader announced last March his very own mission
of sorts: to find the F-1 engines that powered the Saturn V rocket carrying
astronauts Buzz Aldrin, Michael Collins and Neil Armstrong to the moon.
The engines were discovered last March in waters 14,000 feet
deep over coast of Florida. But they could not be positively defined as being
from Apollo 11. "The components' fiery end and heavy corrosion from 43
years underwater removed or concealed the majority of the original serial
numbers," Bezos wrote.
Still, a number of the conservators on his team had the
ability to make out a serial number, 2044, which Bezos says, matches around the
Apollo 11 flight.
The F-1 engine, which came in a cluster of 5, provided 32
million horsepower by burning 6,000 pounds of fuel every second, and together,
they lifted the biggest rocket of all time 38 miles above Earth in less than
three minutes, CNN reports.
After their job was done, the engines fell some 5,000 feet
in the ocean, where they remained until Bezos with his fantastic expedition
team found them through the use of highly sensitive sonar.
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