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PKIDelirium
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2012-03-30, 17:01

Amazon's Jeff Bezos locates, plans to raise Apollo 11's Saturn V first stage engines.

This is cool as hell, but NASA is being lame and claiming full legal ownership of them once recovered. Come on guys, they were on an expendable rocket and got dumped into 14,000 feet of water out in the Atlantic, apparently never to be seen again. And you want them back now? Isn't there some statute of limitations as to how long you can claim ownership of lost/abandoned hardware?

Also, what the hell happened to the rest of the giant S-1C first stage? They said they found the engines, but apparently nothing else...

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