Apollo 11 Recovery

Today happens to be the anniversary of the Apollo 11 landing. Armstrong, Aldrin and Collins.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k_OD2V6fMLQ

Bezos has been very lucky: The engines recovered are now confirmed as being from Apollo 11 apparently.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2371494/Apollo-11-rocket-engines-moon-landing-mission-confirmed-ocean.html

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[QUOTE=Biggles of 266;2005265]It is an interesting thought that the ‘artifacts’ left on the Moon, could actually promote another space race.

Can you imagine the political repercussions, if China (Or N. Korea!) were to go to the Moon, and return with the Apollo 11 descent stage and put it on display in Bejing?[/QUOTE

Or the Chinese putting a colony on the moon and bulldozing all the Apollo hardware in to a crater and saying sorry but we can’t find any American stuff here, it must have been a hoax, because I can’t see America ever going back
there.

Guy,
Don’t forget that Skylab was launched by a Saturn V (SA-513) and there were 3 S1B launches for crews plus another for the ASTP. Sea bed must be full of engines……

It is an interesting thought that the ‘artifacts’ left on the Moon, could actually promote another space race.

Can you imagine the political repercussions, if China (Or N. Korea!) were to go to the Moon, and return with the Apollo 11 descent stage and put it on display in Bejing?

I can’t see the Americans allowing that to happen.

Two engines is not many. There must be an awful lot of them down there.

10x Saturn 1 Unmanned
3 x Saturn 1B Unmanned
Apollos 4, 5, and 6 unmanned
Apollos 7 (1B), 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16 and 17

5 per launch x 27 = 135 engines!

Thats not counting all the Mercury and Gemeni missions.
Anybody fancy a go with a magnet?
Guy

I think the engines are made from fairly exotic alloys so apart from impact damage then I don’t think corrosion will be much of an issue – aluminium and magnesium would not be high on my list of materials for an engine knocking out that temperatures that the F-1 did.

I love his passion!

This would be the engine recovery vid. 🙂

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kQwV_8BeaQg

What an incredibly clear bit of footage, the condition of the engines is excellent bearing in mind how long they were down there.

apollo landers

It would be fascinating if, in a 1000 years someone recovers the Lunar Landers from the Moon. I wouldn’t be surprised if settlers turn one into a monument ON the moon!

our nomadic fiends, who have a penchant for scrap metal will have got to the moon buggey’s and nicked the wheels

This would be the engine recovery vid. 🙂

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kQwV_8BeaQg

It would be fascinating if, in a 1000 years someone recovers the Lunar Landers from the Moon. I wouldn’t be surprised if settlers turn one into a monument ON the moon!

I think they are still in the Desert near Roswell.

“yep I wasnt quick enough on the edit button

heres a picture of the ship, which is berthed at the same place as its predecessor was before it set off for the Doolittle mission..”

Now famous for being the Mythbusters testing ground.

It would be fascinating if, in a 1000 years someone recovers the Lunar Landers from the Moon. I wouldn’t be surprised if settlers turn one into a monument ON the moon!

I believe there was a group around a few years ago who wanted to raise and restore the original Helo 66 – but I think it just fizzled out.

IMHO the ultimate space-hardware recovery would be Apollo 10’s lunar ascent module. Only problem is it’s somewhere in orbit round the sun…..
Not sure even Bezos has pockets deep enough to fund that one.

I thought it was unsure which Saturn V S1 these engines came from

Updated page on this:

http://www.collectspace.com/news/news-032912a.html

DAI

Grissom named his shared Gemini (The Unsinkable) “Molly Brown” in recognition of what happened to his Mercury capsule.

Beat me to it…! It was Virgil Grissoms Mercury capsule that sank when a hatch blew and there was a great documentary on about it a couple of years ago.

🙂 Lobster

Didn’t they recover a Gemini capsule from the ocean floor a few years ago?

27vet the quarantine unit you saw is the actual unit used after the Apollo 11 mission. It used to be at Huntsville and then they moved it to Udvar-Hazy not long after it opened.