Apollo 11

The former astronaut relived the moment he set foot on the lunar surface on July 21 1969 as he provided a personal commentary to attendees of an accounting seminar in Sydney. Speaking for more than hour on Wednesday, he told the crowd about the importance ...  

From Popular Science - New Technology, Science News, The Future Now: Neil Armstrong During Apollo 11 Buzz Aldrin took this photo after Armstrong completed his lunar EVA during Apollo 11. NASA/via Wikimedia The immortal first words on the moon, uttered so shakily by a man who has done h  

Neil Armstrong During Apollo 11 Buzz Aldrin took this photo after Armstrong completed his lunar EVA during Apollo 11. NASA/via Wikimedia The immortal first words on the moon, uttered so shakily by a man who has done his best to avoid the spotlight ever ...  

Neil Armstrong, the first man on the moon as Apollo 11 commander, has given a rare interview to an Australian CPA group. In it he says he believed there was only a 50-50 chance Apollo 11 would make a successful landing, and he laments America's lack of direction in space today.  

Apollo 11 astronaut says he was surprised moon mission was a success.  

A 1967 Chevrolet Corvette claimed to be used by NASA Apollo 11 astronaut Neil Armstrong was put up for auction on the popular website eBay last week. Armstrong was the first man to step on the moon during the Apollo 11 mission in July 1969.  

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Of all the Apollo missions, Apollo 11 is certainly the most famous. The Apollo 11 mission is the one that put Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin on the moon. Apollo 11 launched in 1969 and the astronauts roared into space aboard a Saturn V rocket. Shortly after liftoff, the five massive engines on the Saturn Read The Full Story  

Apollo 11, which brought Neil Armstrong and Edwin Buzz Aldrin to the moon, was launched from the Kennedy Space Center on July 20th, 1969. Here’s a video of the Apollo 11 launch.  

Apollo 11 took astronauts Neil Armstrong, Edwin “Buzz” Aldrin and Michael Collins on the historic first moon landing mission in 1969. The 19ft F-1 engines were on the Saturn V rocket that carried the landing module out of Earth’s atmosphere.  

And now Bezos has set his sights on raising the engines that launched astronauts Neil Armstrong, Edwin “Buzz” Aldrin Jr. and Michael Collins on their journey to the moon. If he's successful, Bezos wants NASA to donate one of the engines to ...  

(AGI) Washington - The founder of Amazon has located the Apollo 11 stage one rocket motors at the bottom of the Atlantic. Jeff Bezos intends to recover the engines that powered astronauts Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin to the moon in 1969. He wrote on his ...  

In this July 16, 1969 file photo provided by NASA, the Saturn V rocket that launched Neil Armstrong, Buzz Aldrin and Michael Collins on their Apollo 11 moon mission lifts off at Cape Kennedy, Fla. For more than four decades, the powerful engines that ...  

Of all the things the United States has done in space, the Apollo 11 mission is the most famous and impressive to many. Apollo 11 was the mission that put Buzz Aldrin and Neil Armstrong on the moon in 1969. The astronauts headed to the moon atop a Saturn V…  

The first-stage Apollo 11 engines that Bezos claims have been found helped lift Neil Armstrong, Buzz Aldrin and Michael Collins toward the moon in 1969, Scientific American reports. Bezos does not say how the team was able to prove their authenticity.  

Jeff Bezos, founder of Amazon.com, located the engines from the Apollo 11 rocket that brought Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin to the moon in 1969 14,000 feet underwater.  

Hugh Pickens writes "AFP reports that Amazon.com founder Jeff Bezos plans to retrieve the F-1 engines that rocketed astronaut Neil Armstrong and his crew toward the moon in 1969. 'We're making plans to attempt to raise one or more of them from the ocean floor,' Bezos wrote in his blog at BezosExpeditions.com. 'We don't know yet what condition these engines might be in — they hit the ocean at high velocity and have been in salt water for more...  

Amazon founder and space entrepreneur Jeff Bezos announces on his blog that the Apollo 11 rocket engines which propelled Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin to the moon in 1969—making them the first humans on the moon—have been found on the bottom of the Atlantic ocean by Bezos' research team. Next step? Finding a way to [...]  

In the privately funded venture, Bezos' team used state-of-the-art deep sea sonar to hunt for the space artifacts that have ... burned for only a few minutes on July 16, 1969, sending Neil Armstrong, Buzz Aldrin and Michael Collins to an altitude of ...  

The most famous of all the Apollo missions, Apollo 11 put Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin on the moon, the first time man had ever stepped foot there. In July of 1969, the Saturn V rocket, powered by five massive F-1 engines, roared into life and launched itself into history books worldwide. Generating 7.5 million pounds of thrust, the engines peeled off of the rocket, as planned, after just two minutes of use. These engines tumbled into the...  

In an online announcement Wednesday, the Amazon.com CEO and founder said he is drawing up plans to recover the sunken engines, part of the mighty Saturn V rocket that launched Neil Armstrong, Buzz Aldrin and Michael Collins on their moon mission.  

They still belong to NASA. "We'll keep you posted," Bezos concludes. Here's more about the F-1 engines and the Saturn V that sent Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin to their historic July 20, 1969, moonwalk: The Saturn V rocket was 111 meters (363 feet ...  

The rocket’s five first-stage F-1 engines ignited at 9:32 a.m. July 16, 1969, to lift Neil Armstrong, Buzz Aldrin and Michael Collins from their Kennedy Space Center launch pad. The engines are now lying 14,000 feet beneath the surface of the ...  

The rocket’s five first-stage F-1 engines lit at 9:32 a.m. July 16, 1969, to lift Neil Armstrong, Buzz Aldrin and Michael Collins from their Kennedy Space Center launch pad. The engines are still a “modern wonder,” Bezos wrote on the Web ...  

Saturn V launcher located underwater as Bezos joins ranks of super-rich science adventurers First Post BY Jonathan Harwood LAST UPDATED AT 10:07 ON Thu 29 Mar 2012 INTERNET billionaire Jeff Bezos (above left), the latest celebrity to join the current craze for underwater exploration, has located at the bottom of the Atlantic ocean the rockets that blasted the Apollo 11 moon mission into space.   The Amazon...  

Jeff Bezos, who had the right stuff when starting Amazon.com, now wants to recover the five F-1 rocket engines that fell back into the Atlantic Ocean after lifting the NASA Apollo 11 astronauts toward the Moon.  

Buzz Aldrin, and Michael Collins on their historic trip on July 16, 1969. "I'm excited to report that, using state-of-the-art deep sea sonar, the team has found the Apollo 11 engines lying 14,000 feet below the surface, and we're making plans to attempt to ...  

The titan behind online retail powerhouse Amazon.com on Wednesday revealed a quest to retrieve Apollo 11 moon mission engines that plunged into the ocean decades ago.Engines that rocketed astronaut Neil Armstrong and his crew toward the moon in 1969 were located deep in the Atlantic Ocean using sophisticated sonar equipment, Jeff Bezos wrote in his blog at BezosExpeditions.com."We're making plans to attempt to raise one or more of them from...  

Salvage operation led by Amazon boss aims to recover engines that powered the first moon landingNearly 43 years after they thrust the Apollo 11 astronauts moonwards through a blue Florida sky, the mighty engines that helped deliver man to the Sea of Tranquillity have been found in the depths of the Atlantic Ocean.The five engines, last seen driving the Saturn V rocket free of the Earth on 16 July 1969, were found in a search led by the Amazon...  

In an online announcement Wednesday, Bezos said he is drawing up plans to recover the sunken engines, part of the mighty Saturn V rocket that launched Armstrong, Buzz Aldrin and Michael Collins on their moon mission. It was not immediately clear ...  

AMAZON'S founder Jeff Bazos will try to recover at least one of the engines that helped boost the Apollo 11 astronauts into history.  

CAPE CANAVERAL, Florida (Reuters) - Space enthusiast and entrepreneur Jeff Bezos has found the rocket motors used to send the Apollo 11 astronauts to the moon and plans to mount a recovery expedition...  

Famous for shunning the media spotlight following the Apollo 11 mission, Neil Armstrong has opened up over his ground-breaking experiences.  

(Newser) – Amazon founder Jeff Bezos says he's discovered the watery resting place of the engines that blasted Neil Armstrong and the Apollo 11 crew toward the moon in 1969—and he's not planning on leaving them there. A Bezos Expeditions ...  

I’m embarrassed to admit this, but, according to my parents, when I was a mere three years old and watching the Apollo 11 launch July 16, 1969, on our tiny low-def TV, my infant vocal cords supposedly uttered “Aw, he broke” after the first-stage Saturn V engine separation.[caption image="/cfs-filesystemfile.ashx/__key/CommunityServer.Blogs.Components.WeblogFiles/astronomy.Spacecraft/6886.APOLLO11_5F00_01sm.jpg" targeturl="/cfs-filesystemfile...  

Amazon.com founder Jeff Bezos has a new, space-related obsession: recovering the rocket engines for the Apollo 11. According to Bezos, in a post on Bezos Expeditions, his investment company, he is now looking to recover the F-1 rocket engines which were used to send Apollo 11 into space. Bezos said that a team has found the Apollo 11 engines laying 14,000 feet below the surface of the ocean, and is now making plans to attempt to raise one or...  

“Eleven, ten, nine, ignition sequence start. …” It remains as one of the defining events of the last century: Apollo 11, on a pillar of fire from its five F-1 rocket engines, leaving for the moon in July 1969. “… Three, two, one – all...  

“Eleven, ten, nine, ignition sequence start. …” It remains as one of the defining events of the last century: Apollo 11, on a pillar of fire from its five F-1 rocket engines, leaving for the moon in July 1969. “… Three, two, one – all...  

Amazon.com founder Jeff Bezos has located the Apollo 11 F-1 rocket engines and plans to recover them. “I’m excited to report that, using state-of-the-art deep sea sonar, the team has found the Apollo 11 engines lying 14,000 feet below the surface, and we’re making plans to attempt to raise one or more of them from [...]  

Long before Jeff Bezos became an Internet mogul, he was enthralled by the mysteries of space. As a 5-year-old, Bezos, along with half a billion people around the world, watched in awe as American astronaut Neil Armstrong took the first step on the moon in ...  

CAPE CANAVERAL, Florida (Reuters) - Space enthusiast and entrepreneur Jeff Bezos has found the rocket motors used to send the Apollo 11 astronauts to the moon and plans to mount a recovery expedition soon, the ...  

LOS ANGELES For more than four decades, the powerful engines that helped boost the Apollo 11 mission to the moon have rested in the Atlantic. Now Internet billionaire and space enthusiast Jeff Bezos wants to raise at least one of them to the surface.  

The Saturn V rocket is, in my opinion, the most beautiful space craft ever built. Oh, it's also the most powerful man-made vehicle ever built. On it's launch for the Apollo 11 mission, several of the engines fell into the Atlantic ocean and now the CEO of Amazon wants to recover them.    It's not clear how Mr. Bezos knows that these are indeed the engines from the Apollo 11 space mission, but any sort of artifact recovery is certainly very...  

Long before Amazon.com founder Jeff Bezos became an Internet mogul, he was enthralled by the mysteries of space. As a 5-year-old, Bezos, along with half a billion people around the world, watched in awe as American astronaut Neil Armstrong took the first ...  

Apollo 11 Rocket Engines Found in the Ocean Bezos Expeditions, founded by Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos, announced that the F-1 engines that rocketed Apollo 11 into space have been found. The Apollo 11 mission put mankind...read more  

Just days after "Titanic" director James Cameron traveled to the bottom of the sea, another wealthy adventurer has announced a spectacular deep ocean discovery. Amazon.com founder and CEO Jeff Bezos has unveiled plans to recover the F-1 engines that powered the Saturn V rocket carrying Neil Armstrong and the Apollo 11 mission to the moon. "I'm excited to report that, using state-of-the-art deep sea sonar, the team has found the Apollo 11...  

A year ago, Amazon founder Jeff Bezos hired a team of experts to find the discarded F-1 rocket engines from the Apollo 11 moon landing mission. On Wednesday, Bezos announced that the team has found the engines 14,000 feet underneath the Atlantic Ocean. Bezos is now launching a mission to recover the engines so they [...]  

Space Junk? old satellites from the 80s is space junk. these rockets should be prized as much as sputnik. these rockets helped put man on the moon. the only think more awesome then these rockets would be Apollo 11's lunar lander thats sitting on the moon. cant believe you would call this space junk KaosTheoryx  

LOS ANGELES, Calif. - For more than four decades, the powerful engines that helped boost the Apollo 11 mission to the moon have rested in the Atlantic. Now Internet billionaire and space enthusiast Jeff Bezos wants to raise at least one of them to the surface. An undersea expedition spearheaded  

When you’ve made as much money as Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos has, you’ve maybe earned the right to undertake some bizarre initiatives. For Bezos, the dream of finding the original Apollo 11 engines has been occupying part of his time for the last year. Working with a team of “undersea pros,” Bezos has announced that [...]  

The F-1 rocket engine is still a modern wonder — one and a half million pounds of thrust, 32 million horsepower, and burning 6,000 pounds of rocket grade kerosene and liquid oxygen every second. On July 16, 1969, the world watched as five particular F-1 engines fired in concert, beginning the historic Apollo 11 mission.  

Amazon.com's billionaire founder, Jeff Bezos, says he's funded a successful effort to locate the mammoth rocket engines that sent the Apollo 11 mission on the first leg of its mission to the moon — and now he's planning to bring them up from the Atlantic Ocean floor. I …  

In today’s edition of “super-rich guy goes on deep sea expedition,” Amazon founder and CEO Jeff Bezos announced on his blog Wednesday that he and his team of aquatic experts have found the F-1 booster rockets that propelled Neil Armstrong’s 1969 ...  

LOS ANGELES — Long before Jeff Bezos became an Internet mogul, he was enthralled by the mysteries of space. As a 5-year-old, Bezos, along with half a billion people around the world, watched in awe as American astronaut Neil Armstrong took the ...  

F-1 Engine Recovery, Bezos Expeditions "I'm excited to report that, using state-of-the-art deep sea sonar, the team has found the Apollo 11 engines lying 14,000 feet below the surface, and we're making plans to attempt to raise one or more...  

The Apollo 11 mission from 1969 is possibly the most famous NASA mission. To lift the rocket NASA developed the F1 rocket engines with 32 million horsepower. Five F-1 burned for just a few...  

The Saturn V was perhaps the greatest rocket ever built. Quoting Wikipedia: It remains the tallest, heaviest and most powerful rocket ever brought to operational status and still holds the record for the heaviest launch vehicle payload. The first stage … Continue reading →  

How's this for cool? Jeff Bezos's expedition company just found the engines that powered the Apollo 11 moon rocket...which have been sitting under 14,000 feet of water in the Atlantic Ocean since 1969: March 28, 2012 The F-1 rocket engine is still a modern wonder — one and a half million pounds of thrust, 32 million horsepower, and burning 6,000 pounds of rocket grade kerosene and liquid oxygen every second. On July 16, 1969, the world...  

In the week's second major piece of rich-man-and-the-sea news, Jeff Bezos announced that he has located the F-1 engines that powered the Apollo 11, which have been at the bottom of the Atlantic Ocean since the spacecraft's 1969 takeoff. Or, rather, a team of scientists using state-of-the-art sonar technology paid for by Bezos has located the engines and is now planning to dredge them up to the surface (they're about 14,000 feet below right now...  

After you’ve built an online retailing empire, destroyed brick and mortar book stores, ushered in digital books, and were the first to successfully compete with Apple’s iPad, what’s there left for you to do? For Jeff Bezos, you mount an expedition 14,000 feet below the ocean’s surface to recover the F-1 engines that mankind to the Moon.  

Not that it's not interesting and sure, it would be fun to see them at the Smithsonian, but I'd rather hear about Bezos doing something about a bigger cause that actually impacts the future. Maybe it's just me but the costly mission to locate and then recover old rocket engines isn't as interesting as the less glamorous mission of educating or immunizing or feeding people or other critical issues of our time. MSNBC: Amazon.com's billionaire...  

F-1 engines (red cones) on the Apollo 8 first stage. Credit: NASA Jeff Bezos, Amazon.com CEO and one of the richest people in the world, has an abiding interest in the future of space exploration. His start-up Blue Origin is building suborbital launch vehicles and has received millions in NASA funding to develop next-generation spaceflight technologies. But Bezos also has a passion for spaceflight history, it seems. His privately funded team...  

Jeff Bezos, Amazon.com CEO and one of the richest people in the world, has an abiding interest in the future of space exploration. His start-up Blue Origin is building suborbital launch vehicles and has received millions in NASA funding to develop next-generation spaceflight technologies. But Bezos also has a passion for spaceflight history, it seems. [...]  

Amazon founder and space enthusiast Jeff Bezos has today issued a web statement, indicating how he is going to be working with undersea experts to recover the Apollo 11 engines that started humankind’s mission to the moon in 1969.  

Four days later, Armstrong and Aldrin walked on the moon ... which he described as an alien world. Sir Richard Branson plans a similar dive to the deepest part of the Atlantic, the Puerto Rican trench, later this year.  

Amazon billionaire Jeff Bezos aims to bring up Apollo 11's sunken enginesmsnbc.comThe five giant F-1 engines on Apollo 11's Saturn 5 rocket loom large during preparations for the 1969 launch from NASA's Kennedy Space Center. Amazon.com billionaire Jeff Bezos says his team has located the engines, which fell into the sea just minutes ...and more »  

Plans to salvage historic rockets for display Jeff Bezos, Amazon's adventurous CEO, says his organization has found the F-1 rockets used briefly by Apollo 11 and he wants to salvage them for American museums.…  

LONG before Amazon.com founder Jeff Bezos became an Internet mogul, he was enthralled by the mysteries of space. As a 5-year-old, Bezos, along with half a billion people around the world, watched in awe as American...  

It remains as one of the defining events of the last century: Apollo 11, on a pillar of fire from its five F-1 rocket engines, leaving for the moon in July 1969. “… Three, two, one – all engines running – and liftoff on Apollo 11….” The Saturn ...  

Billionaire space enthusiast and entrepreneur Jeff Bezos, founder of Amazon.com, has announced an audacious plan to retrieve the five massive rocket engines used to launch NASA's historic Apollo 11 mission to land the first men on the moon in 1969. The ...  

From Neil Armstrong's giant step for mankind to the final flight last year, astronaut ALAN BEAN, the fourth man on the Moon, chooses his highlights.  

LOS ANGELES - For more than four decades, the powerful engines that helped boost the Apollo 11 mission to the moon have rested in the Atlantic. Now Internet billionaire and space enthusiast Jeff Bezos wants to raise at least one of them to the ...  

Still, it leaves a number of questions unanswered — not the least being if those engines really did come from Apollo 11. NASA launched 13 Saturn V's from 1967 to 1973 and all of them flew ... of" means both when the matter of legal title can make its ...  

Amazon.com creator, Jeffrey Preston Bezos, says that five rocket booster engines ... Amazon was created in 1994 after Bezos made a cross-country drive from New York to Seattle. He initially set up the company in his garage.  

For more than four decades, the powerful engines that helped boost the Apollo 11 mission to the moon have rested in the Atlantic. Now Internet billionaire and space enthusiast Jeff Bezos wants to raise at least one of them to the surface.  

The Apollo 11 engine rescue mission is not the only manifestation of Bezos's love for space exploration. He is a principle operator of the private -- and somewhat mysterious -- space exploration company Blue Origin. He says his love for space began as a ...  

Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos has announced, on his Bezos Expeditions website, that his team has found the F-1 rocket engines that powered the first stage of the Saturn V that sent Apollo 11 to the moon, somewhere on the bottom of the Atlantic. Bezos intends to ...  

Apollo 11 fulfilled US President John Kennedy's goal of reaching the Moon before the Soviet Union to win the 'space race'. After stepping onto the Moon's surface on July 21 1969 , Armstrong uttered the immortal words: 'That's one small step for man ...  

LOS ANGELES -- For more than four decades, the powerful engines that helped boost the Apollo 11 mission to the moon have rested in the Atlantic. Now Internet billionaire and space enthusiast Jeff Bezos wants to raise at least one of them to the surface.  

"I'm excited to report that, using state-of-the-art deep sea sonar, the team has found the Apollo 11 engines lying 14,000 feet below the surface, and we're making plans to attempt to raise one or more of them from the ocean floor," Bezos wrote in a ...  

WASHINGTON, D.C. -- If Amazon.com founder Jeff Bezos is successful in fishing any of the Apollo 11 engines from the Atlantic Ocean, Seattle's Museum of Flight could end up with some of the treasure, NASA said Friday. Using high-tech sonar, an ...  

When NASA's mighty Saturn V rocket launched the historic Apollo 11 mission to land the first men on the moon in 1969, the five powerful engines that powered the booster's first stage dropped into the Atlantic Ocean and were lost forever. "I'm ...  

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 ...  

By Jeff Bezos. Yes, that Jeff Bezos. The founder of Amazon just announced on his blog that, with the help of some "undersea pros," he's managed to locate the long-lost rocket engines from the Apollo-11 mission lying 14,000 feet below the surface of the ...  

Jeff Bezos reported on his Bezos Expeditions website that one of his teams ... Likewise, the F-1 engines are composed of Inconel, aluminum, stainless steel and copper. All of those materials are relatively immune to seawater and might very well survive ...  

"We read Mr. Bezos's blog post with the same excitement as I am sure others have today," Robert Jacobs, NASA's deputy associate administrator for communications, wrote on Wednesday (March 28) in an e-mail to journalists ... their sonar search for the ...  

Why on Earth is the Amazon founder doing this? He's got to do something with that mountain of cash he's made from online shopping, and recovering the rockets seems quite close to his heart. Speaking on his website, Bezos says, "NASA is one of the few ...  

Amazon.com and Blue Origin founder Jeff Bezos last week announced he would ... and he began to wonder a year ago if the engines could be recovered. Today, he said a team had located the engines on the ocean floor using state-of-the-art deep ...  

NASA's chief hopes that Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos has "all the luck in the world" recovering one or more of the engines that launched the first manned moon landing mission from where the dot-com billionaire recently discovered them on the ocean floor.  

Ya' know, there's nothing like a little rocket engine hunting to save oneself from the doldrums of generating billions of dollars in revenue in the private sector. At least that appears to be the case for Amazon founder and CEO Jeff Bezos, who spearheaded an ocean expedition to find the F-1 engines used in the Apollo 11 mission. Forget newer stuff like the GENIE, Vega and Slytherin's SuperDraco -- the classic F-1 is still the rocket engine...  

The sea floor is littered with spent rockets and flight parts from missions dating back to the dawn of the space age and it's unknown what survived decades later after crashing into the ocean. In 2009, a private company salvaged Gus Grissom's Mercury ...  

Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos has a knack for using his considerable net worth in interesting ways -- 10,000 Year Clock anyone? -- but for space buffs like me, one venture in particular takes the cake. In a new post on the Bezos Expeditions website, he announced that he and his team of savvy undersea explorers have located the Rocketdyne F-1 engines that helped propel the crew of Apollo 11 on their historic voyage to the moon in 1969.  

We don't know yet what condition these engines might be in - they hit the ocean ... I've asked NASA if they would consider making it available to the excellent Museum of Flight here in Seattle. (For clarity, I'll point out that no public funding will ...  

the Saturn S-1C first stage fell about 38 miles before hitting water roughly 55 miles downrange from Cape Kennedy. The majority of the stage is composed of aluminum and Inconel, and would not have corroded appreciably in saltwater. Likewise, the F-1 ...  

Now Internet billionaire and space enthusiast Jeff Bezos wants to raise at least one of them ... engines off the sea floor than the 2 ½ minutes it took for them to power off the launchpad. It was not immediately clear when Bezos' team spotted ...  

March 29--Ever wonder what kind of random hobbies you'd take up if you were a billionaire? Well, for Amazon.Com founder and CEO Jeff Bezos -- worth $18.4 billion according to Forbes -- it's about tracking down old rocket engines. Did we mention ...  

LOS ANGELES -- Long before Jeff Bezos became an Internet mogul ... the 19-foot engines off the sea floor than the 2 1/2 minutes it took for them to power off the launch pad. The sea floor is littered with spent rockets and flight parts from ...  

Ever wonder what kind of random hobbies you’d take up if you were a billionaire? Well, for Amazon.com founder and CEO Jeff Bezos-- worth $18.4 billion according to Forbes -- it’s about tracking down old space shuttle parts. Did we mention ...  

Climate changes may have promoted the formation of new species in the Amazon. Yale University students discover treasure trove of biodiversity in Amazon rain forest. 'Pristine' Amazonian region may have hosted large, urban civilization.  

“We don't know yet what condition these engines might be in - they hit the ... I've asked NASA if they would consider making it available to the excellent Museum of Flight here in Seattle.” Michoud, in eastern New Orleans, was the ...  

The founder of Amazon.com says his team has found at the bottom of the Atlantic Ocean the F-1 engines that fired Apollo 11 into space on its 1969 mission to the moon.  

The rocket-booster engines that helped launch the Apollo 11 mission to the moon are to be raised from the Atlantic after more than four decades underwater by Amazon's founder.  

Amazon founder Jeff Bezos has discovered the five F-1 engines that launched Apollo 11 in to space. It's the NASA mission that launched the United Stat...  

Jeff Bezos wrote in his blog at BezosExpeditions.com. "We're making plans to attempt to raise one or more of them from the ocean floor," Bezos said. "We don't know yet what ...  

For more than four decades, the powerful engines that helped boost the Apollo 11 mission to the moon have rested in the Atlantic. Now Internet billionaire and...  

The titan behind online retail powerhouse Amazon.com on Wednesday revealed a quest to retrieve Apollo 11 moon mission engines that plunged into the ocean decades ago  

Bezos says he's funded a successful mission to track the F-1 engines and now plans to retrieve them from the bottom of the Atlantic Ocean so they can be publicly displayed.  

The huge engines that helped boost the Apollo 11 mission to the moon have been in the Atlantic for more than four decades.  

Space enthusiast Jeff Bezos wants to raise sunken engines from Apollo 11 mission to the moon to the surfaceSeeing Around Corners May Become Next 'Superpower'  

Minutes after the historic Apollo 11 mission launched in July 1969, its five F-1 engines were discharged and dropped safely into the Atlantic Oc…  

Ahead of the centenary of the Titanic's sinking, Amazon founder Jeff Bezos announces the discovery of other historic relics at the bottom of the ocean  

A discovery on the floor of the Atlantic may -- or may not -- be a treasured artifact  

Amazon's Bezos finds Apollo 11 rockets in ocean, contemplates shipping options  

NASA isn't the only one eager to see Jeff Bezos find the Apollo 11 moon rocket engines.  

NASA isn't the only one eager to see Jeff Bezos find the Apollo 11 moon rocket engines.  

A discovery on the floor of the Atlantic may — or may not — be a treasured artifact.  

The historic rocket's engines dropped into the sea during liftoff.  

Jeff Bezos remembers watching the launch of the Apollo 11 on television in July...  

A team funded by Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos says it has found the rockets used to launch man to the moon.  

Long before Jeff Bezos became an Internet mogul, he was enthralled by the mysteries of space.  

Long before Jeff Bezos became an Internet mogul, he was enthralled by the mysteries of space.  

Long before Jeff Bezos became an Internet mogul, he was enthralled by the mysteries of space.  

Bezos plans to ask NASA's permission to put the engines in the Museum of Flight in Seattle