Billionaire Jeff Bezos has mounted a project that used the latest deep sea technology to find the powerful F-1 engines from the Saturn V rocket that flung Apollo 11 to the Moon. Once there, of course, Neil Armstrong and Edwin Aldrin became the first humans to land on another heavenly body.
Having found the engines in 14,000 feet of water east of Florida, Bezos said his team will now try to raise at least one of them. If that attempt is successful, the engine will be turned over to NASA, which still owns the engines.
Earlier in the week, NASA announced its Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter has taken the most detailed images yet of the Apollo 11 landing site, and released the photographs. Clearly seen are the bottom stage of the lunar module, the instrument packages set up by Armstrong and Aldrin, and even the tracks created by the astronauts as they hopped and skipped over the lunar surface.
All in all, it was not a good few days for those folks who insist the lunar landings were faked.
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