Jeff Bezos, founder of Blue Origin and Amazon.com, announced at the end of March that an expedition he funded had located the F-1 engines from the Apollo 11 launch. Bezos plans to recover at least one of the engines. The infographic below explains the engines and how they came to lie at the bottom of the ocean.
Source: SPACE.com: All about our solar system, outer space and exploration
Infographic: Saturn V’s F-1 Engines
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