Amazon’s (NASDAQ: AMZN) founder and CEO Jeff Bezos has been successful enough to earn himself a remarkably expensive hobby. He has been interested in outer space since he was a child. Bezos assembled an expert underwater exploration team and sophisticated technology to look for the F-1 engines that initially powered Apollo 11 to the first mission which put a man on the moon. The Bezos group has found the some of all of the five rockets 14,000 feet down in the Atlantic. He plans to raise them. And, if movie director James Cameron can make a solo dive to the deepest part of the world’s oceans, why shouldn’t Bezos use his fortune for similar pleasures
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