Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos lead a group of researchers to the Atlantic Ocean and discovered parts of the Apollo 11 on their mission, CNN reported.

Bezos lead the expedition in March and announced Friday that NASA had confirmed what he already believed. The parts were components of two F-1 rocket engines from the Apollo 11 spacecraft that carried Neil Armstrong, Michael Collins and Buzz Aldrin to the moon.

"44 years ago tomorrow Neil Armstrong stepped onto the moon, and now we have recovered a critical technological marvel that made it all possible," Bezos wrote on his blog Friday.

Bezos offered congratulations to the Kansas Cosmosphere and Space Center conservation team in Hutchinson, Kansas for their help. A conservator noticed the number 2044 stenciled in black paint on the side of one of the thrust chambers.

Bezos said the number corresponded to NASA number 6044, which was the serial number for F-1 engine no. 5 from the Apollo 11 mission. The conservator eventually found the rocket to read "unit no. 2044."

"Conservation is painstaking work that requires remarkable levels of patience and attention to detail, and these guys have both," Bezos said of the Kansas conservators.

Bezos, chief on the Internet retail giant, said he had been inspired by watching the moon landing in 1969 as a six-year-old.

In 2012, Bezos said he wanted to find the Apollo 11 rocket and in March, he and his team discovered a set of engines 14,000 feet down off the coast of Florida.

"The technology used for the recovery is in its own way as otherworldly as the Apollo technology itself," Bezos wrote in March. "The Remotely Operated Vehicles worked at a depth of more than 14,000 feet, tethered to our ship with fiber optics for data and electric cables transmitting power at more than 4,000 volts."

The day after the Apollo landing, the Los Angeles Times reporters Marvin Miles and Rudy Abramson described the event.

"U.S. astronauts stepped onto the surface of the moon Sunday and explored its bleak, forbidding crust in man's first visit to another celestial body," they wrote.