Space enthusiast Jeff Bezos, better known as the Chairman and CEO of Amazon.com, announced that an expedition he funded has located the five booster engines that launched Apollo 11 into space in 1969 off the coast of Florida. He plans to mount a recovery exped ition soon. After liftoff from the Kennedy Space Center at Cape Canaveral, the 32-mill ion horsepower F-1 engi nes separa ted from the Saturn V rocket, as designed to do, and plummeted back to earth , landing in the Atlantic. According to Bezos's blog, "I was 5 years old when I watched Apollo 11 unfold on television , and without any do ub t it was
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