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Old March 25th 13, 01:07 AM posted to sci.space.history
Bob Haller
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Default recovered F-1 engines - which mission?

On Mar 24, 8:38*pm, Jan Philips wrote:
On Fri, 22 Mar 2013 09:37:25 -0400, "Greg \(Strider\) Moore"

wrote:
Well, the GOAL was the Apollo 11 S-V. *Hence in part why I think many folks
are saying these are them.


That said, I suspect it'll be a bit (days or weeks) before anything is
confirmed.


Could they tell from the location?


Not EXACTLY, the area is littered with all sorts of debris from a
lifetime of launches.

in some form everything must be there, they know what it looks like,
the serial numbers are in the archives, cleaning and confirming serial
numbers take time