They found the Apollo 11 Booster Rockets at the bottom of the Atlantic

[Dixon Carter Lee]

Moon Hoaxers counter that they were placed there James Cameron.

 

[islandman]

Piss-poor grammar aside, I can't find any news on finding the boosters.

Link?



ETA: http://news.yahoo.com/apollo-11-booster-found-amazons-jeff-bezos-120259391--abc-news-tech.html

 

[JohnnySavage]

I thought Apollo 11 went to the moon

 

[islandman]

I thought Apollo 11 went to the moon

Only in the movies.

 

[Dixon Carter Lee]

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/03/28/jeff-bezos-apollo-11-engi_n_1386223.html?ref=technology



Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos announced today that an underwater sea expedition he financed has discovered artifacts from the Apollo 11 mission to the moon at the bottom of the Atlantic Ocean, nearly 43 years after they landed there.

Bezos says that F-1 rocket engines were found 14,000 feet below the surface using deep sea sonar, and he intends to raise at least one, maybe more, above sea level.

The first-stage Apollo 11 engines that Bezos claims have been found helped lift Neil Armstrong, Buzz Aldrin and Michael Collins toward the moon in 1969, Scientific American reports. Bezos does not say how the team was able to prove their authenticity.

The efforts to find the engines were privately funded by Bezos, and he says that the plan to bring them up would also be privately funded. He isn't the only tech founder interested in space, as Microsoft co-founder Paul Allen has his own endeavors, including plans for a commercial spaceship. And this isn't the only deep-sea news of the week either, as film director James Cameron successfully emerged from his Mariana Trench dive.

Bezos notes that the F-1 engines remain property of NASA, MSNBC reports, but he hopes at least one of the engines could be put into the Smithsonian and perhaps an additional one at the Museum of Flight in Amazon's hometown of Seattle.

Here's how Bezos announced the news today:

I'm excited to report that, using state-of-the-art deep sea sonar, the team has found the Apollo 11 engines lying 14,000 feet below the surface, and we're making plans to attempt to raise one or more of them from the ocean floor. 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.

He ended his note with "We'll keep you posted" on the progress of bringing the engines up for the first time since they descended into the ocean.

The Apollo 11 launched on July 16, 1969 (view video footage of the launch from near the base of the engines here). Moon dust from the mission was to be auctioned last year, but ultimately it was returned to NASA.

 

[Dixon Carter Lee]

I thought Apollo 11 went to the moon

I put the word "booster" right there in the title. Jesus Christ on a launch pad.

 

[JohnnySavage]

I wonder why they remain the property of NASA. Usually a Salvor gets to keep what's been abandoned at sea and it's owner can buy it back.

The government must exempt itself from admiralty law.

 

[JohnnySavage]

I put the word "booster" right there in the title. Jesus Christ on a launch pad.

You have no funny.

 

[Dixon Carter Lee]

You have no funny.

Rookie.

 

[piccicatopolka]

Hm... so now they can have something in that DC museum besides air and space.

 

[IndieSnob]

This thread needs a boost.

Like someone should post a really really large stretched out image so it goes to page two.

 

[JohnnySavage]

This thread needs a boost.

Like someone should post a really really large stretched out image so it goes to page two.

This is like a space... SHIP thread!

 

[IndieSnob]

This is like a space... SHIP thread!

I just jizzed.

 

[Nerdy_Harold]

I wonder why they remain the property of NASA. Usually a Salvor gets to keep what's been abandoned at sea and it's owner can buy it back.

The government must exempt itself from admiralty law.

Maritime salvage is fucked up. Counties sue and seize shit all the time. Almost without fail a country sues salvage companies for property salvaged from the sea from old ships that sunk. Total bullshit I feel.

 

[richard_daily]

This thread needs a boost.

Like someone should post a really really large stretched out image so it goes to page two.

Where's ken kraft when you need him?

 

[phrodeau]

Bezos does not say how the team was able to prove their authenticity.

They're probably from Apollo 2 or something.

 

[Stewart_Pidd]

the Sea of Tranquility's in the Atlantic bro?

Stew

 

[1sickbastard]

I thought Apollo 11 went to the moon

It did, but the first and second stage boosters never made Earth-orbit, nor were they designed to.

Only the 3rd stage, which comprised the Command Capsule, it's Service Modual, and the LEM made orbit then the 3-day flight to the Moon.

 

[KingOrfeo]

the Sea of Tranquility's in the Atlantic bro?

Stew

No, but the Sea of Green is just past the Sea of Holes.

 

[KRCummings]

We don't get enough moon hoaxers here. Bunch of truthers and birthers but no moon idiots. I thought they all traveled together.

 

[CHNOPS]

No, but the Sea of Green is just past the Sea of Holes.

I've got one in me pocket.

 

[JohnnySavage]

I've got one in me pocket.

I thought that was a roll of dimes

 

[KingOrfeo]

I thought that was a roll of dimes

. . . or are you just happy to see me? [rimshot]

 

[Sean Renaud]

We don't get enough moon hoaxers here. Bunch of truthers and birthers but no moon idiots. I thought they all traveled together.

If we all clap our hands and believe real hard we might be able to get our local holocaust denier to come back. I know it's not a moon hoaxer but it's still kinda crazy.

 

[Colonel Hogan]

They're probably from Apollo 2 or something.

Apollo 4 & 6; 8 thru 10, 12 thru 17, plus one Skylab launch. Four, six, nine and Skylab weren't lunar mission and might have been launched at different inclinations. All the rest went to the moon and should have dropped their expendable stages on similar trajectories, I would think.