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bklyn55
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posted 05-17-2017 10:52 AM     Click Here to See the Profile for bklyn55   Click Here to Email bklyn55     Edit/Delete Message   Reply w/Quote
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
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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.

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