F-1 engines and explorers

(Before It's News)

A year after his expedition team raised them from the ocean floor, Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos was honored at The Explorers Club’s 110th Annual Dinner in New York City on Saturday (March 15) for the recovery of NASA’s Apollo F-1 engine parts. Apollo 11 moonwalker Buzz Aldrin and Explorers Club president Alan Nichols presented Bezos with a Citation of Merit for finding and salvaging the sunken parts, including at least one F-1 thrust chamber that helped launch Aldrin to the moon.

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