The F-1 rockets that launched Apollo 11's historic mission to the Moon in 1969 have been found,Amazon.com founder Jeff Bezos claims and says he is planning to bring them up from the bottom of the Atlantic ocean In a blog post,the billionaire book seller said the five engines were found using advanced sonar scanning some 14,000ft (4,300m) below the Atlantic Ocean's surface,the BBC reported. The F-1 engines were used on the giant Saturn V rocket that carried the Apollo 11 landing module out of the Earth's atmosphere and towards the Moon. They burned and fell into the Altantic just a few minutes after they launched astronauts Neil Armstrong,Buzz Aldrin and Michael Collins on their historic voyage to the moon. Announcing the discovery on his "Bezos Expeditions" site,Bezos described the F-1 as a "modern wonder" that boasted 32 million horsepower and burned 2,720kg of rocket-grade kerosene and liquid oxygen every second. "I was five years old when I watched Apollo 11 unfold on television,and without any doubt it was a big contributor to my passions for science,engineering,and exploration," he wrote,confirming that his team had located the engines but without hinting where they might be. "We don't know yet what condition these engines might be in - they hit the ocean at high velocity and have been in salt water for more than 40 years. On the other hand,they're made of tough stuff,so we'll see," Bezos wrote,adding that his privately funded team was planning to raise the engines. He also noted that he planned to ask Nasa - which still owns the rockets - for permission to display one in the Museum of Flight in his home city of Seattle. His announcement comes days after film director James Cameron succeeded in his own deep-sea expedition,reaching the bottom of the Mariana Trench,the deepest point on the planet. The attempt to raise the F-1 engines is not the first foray into space technology for Bezos. In 2000,he founded a private space flight firm,Blue Origin,which has received Nasa funding and is working on making orbital and sub-orbital spaceflight commercially available.
