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  

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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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.  

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…  

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...  

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.  

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...  

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...  

(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 ...  

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...  

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 ...  

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 [...]