Apollo 11: The sum of its parts. Made in Connecticut -- off to the moon. By John Burgeson, Staff Writer Aug 31, 2009. About 6 million parts made up the first rocket ship that took men to the moon.

I’m excited to report that, using state-of-the-art deep sea sonar, the team has found the Apollo 11 engines lying 14,000 feet below the surface, and we’re making plans to attempt to raise one ...

Apollo 11's Saturn V rocket needed a lot of power to launch into orbit and reach the Moon. Here's what engines the spacecraft used to accomplish its mission.

In March 2013, Bezos revealed that his team had raised the parts for at least two F-1 engines, but they didn't know if they were from Apollo 11 or one of the 12 other Saturn V rockets that flew ...

Apollo 11 climbs toward orbit after liftoff on July 16, 1969. In 2 1/2 minutes of powered flight, the S-IC booster lifts the vehicle to an altitude of about 39 miles, some 55 miles downrange.

Bezos, the founder of Amazon and Blue Origin rocket company, announced on his blog today that the engine parts belonged to Apollo 11 - the mission that sent the first men to the moon.

Like Dr. James Joki’s backpacks and part of the lunar module, all abandoned on the moon during the journey of Apollo 11, the F-1 rocket engines that launched the spacecraft for NASA’s Apollo ...

At NASA, that means looking to the Apollo program for ideas on how to develop the next generation of rockets for future missions to the moon and beyond. Skip to content Coronavirus ...

The test, with parts taken from an engine intended to fly in the Apollo program, ... Engine No. F-6049 didn't fit properly on the Apollo 11 rocket, but it is invaluable now as a testing tool.

Apollo 11's Saturn V rocket needed a lot of power to launch into orbit and reach the Moon. Here's what engines the spacecraft used to accomplish its mission.

A rocket engine that was built to launch the historic Apollo 11 mission to the moon more than 40 years ago is again rumbling across the Southern landscape. The engine, known to NASA engineers as ...