Jeff Bezos finds engines from Apollo space missions

Kai Ryssdal Mar 20, 2013

This final note today, which comes with the warning that I’m kind of a space geek — with a special interest in the Apollo missions.

So I thought this was pretty cool:

Over the past few years, Amazon CEO and founder Jeff Bezos has been paying for folks to float around in the Atlantic Ocean  looking for the F-1 engines from the Apollo rockets, the big ones that burned out then fell into the ocean.

Bezos announced today that he’s located the engines.

 

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