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Once more unto the Block 2 - Countdown to Launch

In 2013, Jeff Bezos led a mission through Bezos Expeditions to recover Apollo 11’s F-1 rocket engines from the Atlantic Ocean—14,000 feet below the surface, where they had remained since the historic 1969 moon landing. Inspired by childhood memories of the Apollo mission, Bezos used sonar and remotely operated vehicles to retrieve two engines, including thrust chambers and fuel manifolds, after three weeks at sea. A conservator at Kansas Cosmosphere later confirmed that one engine, serial number