posted 05-17-2017 10:52 AM
Other than the F-1 engine recovered by Jeff Bezos in 2013, has any other piece of the Apollo 11 Saturn V rocket ever been recovered?
Robert Pearlman Editor
Posts: 42981 From: Houston, TX Registered: Nov 1999
posted 05-17-2017 11:09 AM
I know of two other recovered artifacts:
The Q-ball cover, a cap at the top of the launch escape system, was recovered and kept as a memento by the engineer who was in charge of the cover's retraction system.
A small fragment (about a foot long) of the Apollo 11 Saturn V S-IC fell onto the deck of a German ship in the Atlantic Ocean. I haven't seen a report of what became of that piece.