We live in incredible times. Jeff Bezos’ crew has found the Apollo 11 booster at the bottom of the sea and now they have recovered two of the enormous F-1 engines which hit the ocean in 1969 going 5000 MPH. This is the thrust chamber section on its way back to Cape Canaveral today.

Jeff writes: “We on the team were often struck by poetic echoes of the lunar missions. The buoyancy of the ROVs looks every bit like microgravity. The blackness of the horizon. The gray and colorless ocean floor. Only the occasional deep sea fish broke the illusion.”

Jeff Bezos and his crew pulling up an enormous F-1 engine from an undersea Apollo 11 site.

“Each piece we bring on deck conjures for me the thousands of engineers who worked together back then to do what for all time had been thought surely impossible.”

[Editor’s Note: This is a guest post from Steve Jurvetson.  Steve is a Managing Director of Draper Fisher Jurvetson. He was a Venture Capitalist investor in Hotmail. He also led the firm’s investments in Tradex and Cyras. -mrh]