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On March 28, 2012, a team funded by Jeff Bezos, founder of Amazon.com, reported that they had located the F-1 rocket engines from an Apollo mission using sonar equipment. [25] Bezos stated he planned to raise at least one of the engines, which rest at a depth of 14,000 feet (4,300 m), about 400 miles (640 km) east of Cape Canaveral, Florida.
Jeff Bezos recently played tour guide for a look inside Blue ... Atlantic to recover Project Apollo's Saturn V engines, which powered the Apollo 11 to the moon. ... at the biggest sale event of ...
[135] [136] In 2013, Bezos Expeditions funded the recovery of two Saturn V first-stage Rocketdyne F-1 engines from the floor of the Atlantic Ocean. [137] They were positively identified as belonging to the Apollo 11 mission's S-1C stage from July 1969. [138] [139] The engines are currently on display at the Seattle Museum of Flight. [140] [141]
Engine Origin Designer Vehicle Status Use Propellant Power cycle Specific impulse (s) [a] Thrust (N) [a] Chamber pressure (bar) Mass (kg) Thrust: weight ratio [b] Oxidiser: fuel ratio AJ-10-190 USA: Aerojet: Space Shuttle, Orion, Apollo CSM: Active Upper N 2 O 4 /MMH: Pressure-fed: 316 [1] 26,689 [1] 8.62 [1] 118 [1] 23.08: Archimedes New ...
Jeff Bezos laughs as he speaks about his flight on Blue Origin’s New Shepard at a press conference in July 2021 in Van Horn, Texas. The company is reportedly in discussions with Boeing.
The installation of Blue Origin's reusable BE-4 engines into ULA's next-generation Vulcan rocket will keep it on track for the debut launch of a moon lander dubbed Peregrine at the end of 2021 ...
[121] and the vast majority of further funding into 2016 was to support technology development and operations where a majority of funding came from Jeff Bezos' private investment fund. In April 2017, an annual amount was published showing that Jeff Bezos was selling approximately $1 billion in Amazon stock per year to invest in the company. [122]
Rod Pyle, Space Journalist, Author, and Editor-in-Chief of Ad Astra Magazine, joins Yahoo Finance to discuss Jeff Bezos’ Blue Origin historic spaceflight and outlook on the modern space race.