<P> In March 2012 a team of specialists financed by Amazon founder Jeff Bezos located the F - 1 engines from the S - IC stage that launched Apollo 11 into space . They were found below the Atlantic Ocean's surface through the use of advanced sonar scanning . His team brought parts of two of the five engines to the surface . In July 2013, a conservator discovered a serial number under the rust on one of the engines raised from the Atlantic, which NASA confirmed was from Apollo 11 . </P> <P> Columbia was moved in 2017 to the NASM Mary Baker Engen Restoration Hangar at the Steven F. Udvar - Hazy Center in Chantilly, Virginia, to be readied for a four - city tour titled Destination Moon: The Apollo 11 Mission . This included Space Center Houston from October 14, 2017 to March 18, 2018, the Saint Louis Science Center from April 14 to September 3, 2018, the Senator John Heinz History Center in Pittsburgh from September 29, 2018 to February 18, 2019, and the Seattle Museum of Flight from March 16 to September 2, 2019 . </P> <P> The S - IVB third stage which performed Apollo 11's trans - lunar injection remains in a solar orbit near to that of Earth . </P> <P> The main repository for the Apollo Moon rocks is the Lunar Sample Laboratory Facility at the Lyndon B. Johnson Space Center in Houston, Texas . For safekeeping, there is also a smaller collection stored at White Sands Test Facility near Las Cruces, New Mexico . Most of the rocks are stored in nitrogen to keep them free of moisture . They are handled only indirectly, using special tools . Over 100 research laboratories around the world conduct studies of the samples, and approximately 500 samples are prepared and sent to investigators every year . </P>

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