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Forum:	Hardware & Flown Items
Topic:	Amazon founder finds Apollo 11 F-1 engines

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Your Reply: HTML is ON UBB Code is ON Smilies Legend	[QUOTE]Originally posted by Robert Pearlman: [B] [QUOTE]Originally posted by Jay Chladek: [b]Even Curt Newport didn't go by his sonar data alone...[/b][/QUOTE] Newport [URL=http://cosmiclog.msnbc.msn.com/_news/2012/03/28/10906114-amazon-billionaire-jeff-bezos-aims-to-bring-up-apollo-11s-sunken-engines]spoke[/URL] to MSNBC's Alan Boyle about this project. <BLOCKQUOTE>[i]Curt Newport, the underwater salvage expert who orchestrated the raising of Liberty Bell 7, said bringing up the engines would pose significant challenges. He assumes that the engines are among other pieces of debris from the Saturn 5's first stage that are spread across the sea floor. "The information I found suggested that [the stage] broke up due to aerodynamic forces before it hit the water," he told me. Verifying that the engines are from Apollo 11 rather than a different Apollo mission would require checking parts numbers against NASA's database, he said. And bringing up the engines would not be a trivial task. "If they're intact, they're like nine tons each," Newport told me. "That is not going to be easy to bring to the surface."[/i]</BLOCKQUOTE> [/B][/QUOTE]
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