Apollo 11 Rocket Engines Found On Ocean Floor By...Who Else? Amazon Wunderkind Jeff Besos...Just In Time For Moonwalk Anniversary

Apollo 11 engines have been found by Jeff Bezos. Yes, the Amazon founder and CEO Jeff Bezos is at it again-using copious amounts of money in exploring for science.

Earlier this year, Bezos found components of two F-1 rocket engines in the Atlantic.  Now, Bezos is claiming that the parts are engines from Apollo 11.

This is important in part because Apollo 11 is the first mission that took U.S. astronauts to the moon. And, to cap the find off, Saturday is the anniversary of the 1969 moon landing.

Bezos wrote on his blog,

"44 years ago tomorrow Neil Armstrong stepped onto the moon, and now we have recovered a critical technological marvel that made it all possible."

Bezos was aided by a conservation team at the Kansas Cosmosphere and Space Center in Hutchinson, Kansas. Bezos congratulated them for their efforts.

A serial number providing the roc conservator identified a serial number proving the rocket engine came from the Apollo 11 program was identified by a conservator.

Bezos congratulated the conservation team at the, for its efforts.

"Conservation is painstaking work that requires remarkable levels of patience and attention to detail, and these guys have both," Bezos said.

One discovered that "2044" had been stenciled in on the side of one of the engine's thrust chambers.

The 2044 corresponds to 6044, which is the serial number for F-1 Engine No. 5 from the Apollo 11 mission.

Bezos said he was inspired in his mission by watching the original mission in 1969 as a five-year-old. He first announced the find in March, saying his researchers had discovered engines in water off the Florida coast. He described the location as "an underwater wonderland -- an incredible sculpture garden of twisted F-1 engines."

The F-1 engines powered the Saturn V rocket that carried astronauts Neil Armstrong, Buzz Aldrin and Michael Collins on the Apollo 11 mission to the moon.

The engines separated from the spacecraft at an altitude of around 38 miles; they were considered lost forever. They made their re-entry at about 5,000 miles an hour then plummeted into the ocean until Bezos' team found them using sonar.

"The components' fiery end and heavy corrosion from 43 years underwater removed or covered up most of the original serial numbers," he wrote on his blog Friday. However, due to sonar, they found the treasure.

"The technology used for the recovery is in its own way as otherworldly as the Apollo technology itself," Bezos wrote in March. "The Remotely Operated Vehicles worked at a depth of more than 14,000 feet, tethered to our ship with fiber optics for data and electric cables transmitting power at more than 4,000 volts."

The engines weighed almost nine tons each and came in a cluster of five. They burned 6,000 pounds of fuel per second and lifted the largest, heaviest rocket in history 38 miles in under three minutes.

The Apollo 11 engines have been to the stars and down to the ocean floor.

Bezos said he plans to display them, "where just maybe it will inspire something amazing."