Jeff Bezos Finds Apollo 11 Rocket Engines on Seafloor, Plans to Go Get Them

I'm assuming he's already looked into this, but what if NASA wants them back? After the Challenger disaster they claimed the entire wreckage, even if it langed on your property, as theirs. I'm just wondering if NASA will just allow that to go into private possession if it is recovered.

Auroria, the best thing for this country is for people to do what they want with their money. If they don't get to do that, why would they bother making it in the first place? yes, this mans should take his hard-earned money and donate it to 'charity'. And by charity I assume you mean yourself, because you want someone else to pay fr your college education.

And with a country in great need of engineers and scientists, I can't think of a better use of money. Giving a few hundred or thousand kids a free ride through college won't do much. Doing an amazing feat like this will. I wasn't inpired to become an engineer because someone else said I could get my BS degree for free. I chose this because I wanted to be part of amazing technological feats that make the world a more awesome place to be in.

So, you take the most powerful thruster in history, use it to deliver humans to OUTER *$%&@(% SPACE, and prove that we arn't beholden to the gravity well of our cradle.

Then, half a century later, after the thruster that was dropped into an ocean 14,000ft BELOW THE SURFACE, you SOMEHOW ACTUALLY FIND IT WITH TECHNOLOGY. And in a crowning moment of awesome, you decide to take this huge piece of scientific history, fragile, old, covered in sediment, and three miles below the surface-- and RECOVER IT.

When my kids look at this in a museam (perhaps the Smithsonian?) a decade or two from now, I'm going to tell them the whole amazing tale of this "rusted rocket engine". I won't have to tell them to be engineers because our country needs it. They'll tell me they want to go into STEM because they love science and adventure.

@brian144

Yes.

@Contoria

Yes.

Auroria
Of course we should just take someone else's money and pay for your college education. NOT!
It's Jeff Bezos' money and he can spend it however he wants. BTW--His company (and he personally) already funds millions of dollars in scholarships and funding to schools and charities around the world.

Whether NASA likes it or not, EVERYTHING it has voluntarily or involuntarily dropped into the world's oceans is now OPEN FOR SALVAGE. By ANYONE. Jeff Bezos can legally recover, and base a new rocket engine design on the F-1, and there is nothing legal that says he can't. The patent lifetimes on those various parts has been long exceeded, so he can copy anything from them he wants to. When Challenger happened, there were national security questions that had to be answered from the wreckage. There was also the issue at hand that the people knew that turning in items from the disaster was the right thing to do from a human standpoint. Two totally different scenarios. If Jeff Bezos invites me over to a bbq, cooked off his neato F-1 BBQ; I'd come in smiling and shake his hand, but if someone invites me over to check out an EVA suit from Challenger, I'd beat the snot out of him.

@Auroria

;)