MAY 22, 2013 - NEW YORK CITY

Gavin Peters is documentating the history of manned space exploration, through photography WIRED magazine describes as "Awesome."

Which confirms what we've known of Gavin all along.

Here's the story.

Amazon.com founder Jeff Bezos has a consuming interest in space exploration, and the history of space exploration.

In March, a team organized by Mr. Bezos recovered NASA's Apollo Saturn V engines after they spent some 40 years on the ocean floor, as reported in WIRED:

The corroded F-1 engines propelled the enormous Saturn V, still the largest and most powerful rocket ever built in the U.S. Each engine produced 7.7 million pounds of thrust and reached a top speed of 10,000 km/hr.

Bezos' Expeditions F-1 Recovery Project brought the engines and artifact pieces to the Kansas Cosmosphere and Space Center, where they are now being cleaned and preserved, with the assistance of aerospace engineers from Wichita State University.

The recovered F-1 engines may someday be displayed at the Smithsonian's National Air and Space Museum in Washington, D.C. and at The Museum of Flight, if NASA and Jeff Bezos have their way.

Gavin Peters of WHISPER was called upon to photograph the recovered items.

Enjoy the awesome photography of our colleague in WIRED.

[Image: Gavin Peters, Source: WIRED; Caption provided by the Kansas Cosmosphere and Space Center]