Nasa S Apollo Mission As Never Seen Before With 35 000 Archival Photos Restored To Reveal Insights

And photo restorer Andy Saunders has applied the same incredible ambition and determination to painstakingly edit 35,000 photos from the Apollo missions that until now had been stored in a locked NASA freezer. The stunningly beautiful images held at the Johnson Space Center in Houston show astonishing new insights into life on rockets and on the surface of the moon. Since the material was kept in the vaults for such a long time, almost every image of Apollo is based on copies of master copies of the originals, leading to a gradual degradation of quality. Now, with access to the film source material, Sanders has been able to shine a light on a dark corner of space and modern history, and the vault has now been described as the “ultimate photographic archive of mankind’s greatest adventure”. Neil Armstrong is captured by Buzz Aldrin moments after his historic spacewalk in 1969, revealing the emotion on the astronaut’s face. It looks like there is a tear in his eye James McDivitt on Apollo 9 docks the lunar module while Russell Schweikart films him. Initially, the film in development showed only a dot of light before it was restored by Saunders Charles Duke leaves a photo of his family on the surface of the Moon, his footprint clearly visible nearby. He wrote on the back: “This is Astronaut Duke’s family from planet Earth. Landed on the Moon, April 1972.’ He said leaving was an ’emotional moment’ David Scott reflects on himself in Russell Schweikart’s Apollo 9 mask on their ten-day mission The film was shot during the Apollo missions from 1962 to 1972, including the only clear image of Neil Armstrong on the Moon, and it took Sanders, 48, more than a decade to restore the whole thing pixel by pixel. Since Armstrong was holding the camera, before the restoration there was no image that clearly showed the astronaut on the physical satellite. There’s also the first clear picture of life inside the doomed Apollo 13 mission that saw astronauts forced back to earth in the Lunar Module, as well as images of Alan Shepard’s golf ball hit on the Moon. The astronaut joked on his return that he flew “miles and miles,” but the photo shows he actually traveled about 40 yards. The contours, craters and features on the Moon’s surface also light up as it passed in front of the Sun on Apollo 11 – a moment Armstrong said was the most beautiful thing he had ever seen. Saunders, a property developer from Cheshire, quit his job to devote full time to editing the images in the secret archive. The first portrait of another human in space was taken in 1965 and shows Ed White leaving his Gemini IV spacecraft in 1965, captured by James McDivitt David Scott is seen in the Apollo 9 command module hatch in 1969 in a photograph taken by Russell Schweickart restored by Saunders Buzz Aldrin takes the first selfie in space in 1966 during the Gemini XII mission, showing the sun reflecting off his visor The digital archaeologist used high-definition scans of the original film material and applied modern digital processing and enhancement techniques to make the photographs as clean and sharp as possible. He told the BBC: “There’s no reason why we shouldn’t see these important moments in history in anything but incredible quality, because they used the best cameras, the best lenses and the best film processed at the most advanced. photo lab available. It is meaningless “. All 16mm film footage was recorded by astronauts during the missions. Saunders uses a ‘stacking’ technique to produce a highly detailed image after layering and processing multiple frames. The process allowed him to reveal things not seen in earlier footage of the film. In one scene, a spot of light from the image underexposure that appeared to be a reflection of the window turned out to be Apollo 9 commander Jim McDivitt in his helmet ready to dock two spacecraft. Fred Haise tries to sleep in the cold module of Apollo 13 in 1970. The mission was supposed to land on the Moon, but an oxygen tank in the service module failed two days into the mission. The crew was forced to circle the moon and return to earth in a dramatic moment that inspired the film of the same name starring Tom Hanks On Apollo 8, Bill Anders used a clapperboard for his home movies on the rocket. The photo on the right is the original image before the Saunders restoration Breathtakingly beautiful images held at Johnson Space Center in Houston show startling new insights into life in rockets and on the surface of the moon Saunders said: “It’s just an absolutely amazing portrait of an Apollo astronaut in 1969, apparently almost looking in wonder through the window. “Actually, it’s even better than that because McDivitt is actually in the process of taking over the docking and the stakes were very high. This was the first time we had people on a spacecraft unable to get them home because they were testing the lunar module and it didn’t have a heat shield. “Well, if they didn’t make that dock, they couldn’t have come back. It’s an incredibly precious moment, an intense moment, a historic moment.’ Sanders talked to astronauts and combed through audio recordings to learn details about light and color to make the photos as realistic as possible. They described the eerie blackness of the sky and the brightness of the sun, which he has recaptured in the images.
Tim Peake told the Guardian: “When I look at these recreated images of the Apollo missions, I remember what I experienced during my six months in space. The images appear in a new book, Apollo Remastered, out tomorrow from Special Books. Saunders can also be found on Twitter and Instagram.

title: “Nasa S Apollo Mission As Never Seen Before With 35 000 Archival Photos Restored To Reveal Insights Klmat” ShowToc: true date: “2022-11-04” author: “Anna Cherry”

And photo restorer Andy Saunders has applied the same incredible ambition and determination to painstakingly edit 35,000 photos from the Apollo missions that until now had been stored in a locked NASA freezer. The stunningly beautiful images held at the Johnson Space Center in Houston show astonishing new insights into life on rockets and on the surface of the moon. Since the material was kept in the vaults for such a long time, almost every image of Apollo is based on copies of master copies of the originals, leading to a gradual degradation of quality. Now, with access to the film source material, Sanders has been able to shine a light on a dark corner of space and modern history, and the vault has now been described as the “ultimate photographic archive of mankind’s greatest adventure”. Neil Armstrong is captured by Buzz Aldrin moments after his historic spacewalk in 1969, revealing the emotion on the astronaut’s face. It looks like there is a tear in his eye James McDivitt on Apollo 9 docks the lunar module while Russell Schweikart films him. Initially, the film in development showed only a dot of light before it was restored by Saunders Charles Duke leaves a photo of his family on the surface of the Moon, his footprint clearly visible nearby. He wrote on the back: “This is Astronaut Duke’s family from planet Earth. Landed on the Moon, April 1972.’ He said leaving was an ’emotional moment’ David Scott reflects on himself in Russell Schweikart’s Apollo 9 mask on their ten-day mission The film was shot during the Apollo missions from 1962 to 1972, including the only clear image of Neil Armstrong on the Moon, and it took Sanders, 48, more than a decade to restore the whole thing pixel by pixel. Since Armstrong was holding the camera, before the restoration there was no image that clearly showed the astronaut on the physical satellite. There’s also the first clear picture of life inside the doomed Apollo 13 mission that saw astronauts forced back to earth in the Lunar Module, as well as images of Alan Shepard’s golf ball hit on the Moon. The astronaut joked on his return that he flew “miles and miles,” but the photo shows he actually traveled about 40 yards. The contours, craters and features on the Moon’s surface also light up as it passed in front of the Sun on Apollo 11 – a moment Armstrong said was the most beautiful thing he had ever seen. Saunders, a property developer from Cheshire, quit his job to devote full time to editing the images in the secret archive. The first portrait of another human in space was taken in 1965 and shows Ed White leaving his Gemini IV spacecraft in 1965, captured by James McDivitt David Scott is seen in the Apollo 9 command module hatch in 1969 in a photograph taken by Russell Schweickart restored by Saunders Buzz Aldrin takes the first selfie in space in 1966 during the Gemini XII mission, showing the sun reflecting off his visor The digital archaeologist used high-definition scans of the original film material and applied modern digital processing and enhancement techniques to make the photographs as clean and sharp as possible. He told the BBC: “There’s no reason why we shouldn’t see these important moments in history in anything but incredible quality, because they used the best cameras, the best lenses and the best film processed at the most advanced. photo lab available. It is meaningless “. All 16mm film footage was recorded by astronauts during the missions. Saunders uses a ‘stacking’ technique to produce a highly detailed image after layering and processing multiple frames. The process allowed him to reveal things not seen in earlier footage of the film. In one scene, a spot of light from the image underexposure that appeared to be a reflection of the window turned out to be Apollo 9 commander Jim McDivitt in his helmet ready to dock two spacecraft. Fred Haise tries to sleep in the cold module of Apollo 13 in 1970. The mission was supposed to land on the Moon, but an oxygen tank in the service module failed two days into the mission. The crew was forced to circle the moon and return to earth in a dramatic moment that inspired the film of the same name starring Tom Hanks On Apollo 8, Bill Anders used a clapperboard for his home movies on the rocket. The photo on the right is the original image before the Saunders restoration Breathtakingly beautiful images held at Johnson Space Center in Houston show startling new insights into life in rockets and on the surface of the moon Saunders said: “It’s just an absolutely amazing portrait of an Apollo astronaut in 1969, apparently almost looking in wonder through the window. “Actually, it’s even better than that because McDivitt is actually in the process of taking over the docking and the stakes were very high. This was the first time we had people on a spacecraft unable to get them home because they were testing the lunar module and it didn’t have a heat shield. “Well, if they didn’t make that dock, they couldn’t have come back. It’s an incredibly precious moment, an intense moment, a historic moment.’ Sanders talked to astronauts and combed through audio recordings to learn details about light and color to make the photos as realistic as possible. They described the eerie blackness of the sky and the brightness of the sun, which he has recaptured in the images.
Tim Peake told the Guardian: “When I look at these recreated images of the Apollo missions, I remember what I experienced during my six months in space. The images appear in a new book, Apollo Remastered, out tomorrow from Special Books. Saunders can also be found on Twitter and Instagram.

title: “Nasa S Apollo Mission As Never Seen Before With 35 000 Archival Photos Restored To Reveal Insights Klmat” ShowToc: true date: “2022-12-12” author: “Neal Green”

And photo restorer Andy Saunders has applied the same incredible ambition and determination to painstakingly edit 35,000 photos from the Apollo missions that until now had been stored in a locked NASA freezer. The stunningly beautiful images held at the Johnson Space Center in Houston show astonishing new insights into life on rockets and on the surface of the moon. Since the material was kept in the vaults for such a long time, almost every image of Apollo is based on copies of master copies of the originals, leading to a gradual degradation of quality. Now, with access to the film source material, Sanders has been able to shine a light on a dark corner of space and modern history, and the vault has now been described as the “ultimate photographic archive of mankind’s greatest adventure”. Neil Armstrong is captured by Buzz Aldrin moments after his historic spacewalk in 1969, revealing the emotion on the astronaut’s face. It looks like there is a tear in his eye James McDivitt on Apollo 9 docks the lunar module while Russell Schweikart films him. Initially, the film in development showed only a dot of light before it was restored by Saunders Charles Duke leaves a photo of his family on the surface of the Moon, his footprint clearly visible nearby. He wrote on the back: “This is Astronaut Duke’s family from planet Earth. Landed on the Moon, April 1972.’ He said leaving was an ’emotional moment’ David Scott reflects on himself in Russell Schweikart’s Apollo 9 mask on their ten-day mission The film was shot during the Apollo missions from 1962 to 1972, including the only clear image of Neil Armstrong on the Moon, and it took Sanders, 48, more than a decade to restore the whole thing pixel by pixel. Since Armstrong was holding the camera, before the restoration there was no image that clearly showed the astronaut on the physical satellite. There’s also the first clear picture of life inside the doomed Apollo 13 mission that saw astronauts forced back to earth in the Lunar Module, as well as images of Alan Shepard’s golf ball hit on the Moon. The astronaut joked on his return that he flew “miles and miles,” but the photo shows he actually traveled about 40 yards. The contours, craters and features on the Moon’s surface also light up as it passed in front of the Sun on Apollo 11 – a moment Armstrong said was the most beautiful thing he had ever seen. Saunders, a property developer from Cheshire, quit his job to devote full time to editing the images in the secret archive. The first portrait of another human in space was taken in 1965 and shows Ed White leaving his Gemini IV spacecraft in 1965, captured by James McDivitt David Scott is seen in the Apollo 9 command module hatch in 1969 in a photograph taken by Russell Schweickart restored by Saunders Buzz Aldrin takes the first selfie in space in 1966 during the Gemini XII mission, showing the sun reflecting off his visor The digital archaeologist used high-definition scans of the original film material and applied modern digital processing and enhancement techniques to make the photographs as clean and sharp as possible. He told the BBC: “There’s no reason why we shouldn’t see these important moments in history in anything but incredible quality, because they used the best cameras, the best lenses and the best film processed at the most advanced. photo lab available. It is meaningless “. All 16mm film footage was recorded by astronauts during the missions. Saunders uses a ‘stacking’ technique to produce a highly detailed image after layering and processing multiple frames. The process allowed him to reveal things not seen in earlier footage of the film. In one scene, a spot of light from the image underexposure that appeared to be a reflection of the window turned out to be Apollo 9 commander Jim McDivitt in his helmet ready to dock two spacecraft. Fred Haise tries to sleep in the cold module of Apollo 13 in 1970. The mission was supposed to land on the Moon, but an oxygen tank in the service module failed two days into the mission. The crew was forced to circle the moon and return to earth in a dramatic moment that inspired the film of the same name starring Tom Hanks On Apollo 8, Bill Anders used a clapperboard for his home movies on the rocket. The photo on the right is the original image before the Saunders restoration Breathtakingly beautiful images held at Johnson Space Center in Houston show startling new insights into life in rockets and on the surface of the moon Saunders said: “It’s just an absolutely amazing portrait of an Apollo astronaut in 1969, apparently almost looking in wonder through the window. “Actually, it’s even better than that because McDivitt is actually in the process of taking over the docking and the stakes were very high. This was the first time we had people on a spacecraft unable to get them home because they were testing the lunar module and it didn’t have a heat shield. “Well, if they didn’t make that dock, they couldn’t have come back. It’s an incredibly precious moment, an intense moment, a historic moment.’ Sanders talked to astronauts and combed through audio recordings to learn details about light and color to make the photos as realistic as possible. They described the eerie blackness of the sky and the brightness of the sun, which he has recaptured in the images.
Tim Peake told the Guardian: “When I look at these recreated images of the Apollo missions, I remember what I experienced during my six months in space. The images appear in a new book, Apollo Remastered, out tomorrow from Special Books. Saunders can also be found on Twitter and Instagram.

title: “Nasa S Apollo Mission As Never Seen Before With 35 000 Archival Photos Restored To Reveal Insights Klmat” ShowToc: true date: “2022-12-10” author: “Keith Cloud”

And photo restorer Andy Saunders has applied the same incredible ambition and determination to painstakingly edit 35,000 photos from the Apollo missions that until now had been stored in a locked NASA freezer. The stunningly beautiful images held at the Johnson Space Center in Houston show astonishing new insights into life on rockets and on the surface of the moon. Since the material was kept in the vaults for such a long time, almost every image of Apollo is based on copies of master copies of the originals, leading to a gradual degradation of quality. Now, with access to the film source material, Sanders has been able to shine a light on a dark corner of space and modern history, and the vault has now been described as the “ultimate photographic archive of mankind’s greatest adventure”. Neil Armstrong is captured by Buzz Aldrin moments after his historic spacewalk in 1969, revealing the emotion on the astronaut’s face. It looks like there is a tear in his eye James McDivitt on Apollo 9 docks the lunar module while Russell Schweikart films him. Initially, the film in development showed only a dot of light before it was restored by Saunders Charles Duke leaves a photo of his family on the surface of the Moon, his footprint clearly visible nearby. He wrote on the back: “This is Astronaut Duke’s family from planet Earth. Landed on the Moon, April 1972.’ He said leaving was an ’emotional moment’ David Scott reflects on himself in Russell Schweikart’s Apollo 9 mask on their ten-day mission The film was shot during the Apollo missions from 1962 to 1972, including the only clear image of Neil Armstrong on the Moon, and it took Sanders, 48, more than a decade to restore the whole thing pixel by pixel. Since Armstrong was holding the camera, before the restoration there was no image that clearly showed the astronaut on the physical satellite. There’s also the first clear picture of life inside the doomed Apollo 13 mission that saw astronauts forced back to earth in the Lunar Module, as well as images of Alan Shepard’s golf ball hit on the Moon. The astronaut joked on his return that he flew “miles and miles,” but the photo shows he actually traveled about 40 yards. The contours, craters and features on the Moon’s surface also light up as it passed in front of the Sun on Apollo 11 – a moment Armstrong said was the most beautiful thing he had ever seen. Saunders, a property developer from Cheshire, quit his job to devote full time to editing the images in the secret archive. The first portrait of another human in space was taken in 1965 and shows Ed White leaving his Gemini IV spacecraft in 1965, captured by James McDivitt David Scott is seen in the Apollo 9 command module hatch in 1969 in a photograph taken by Russell Schweickart restored by Saunders Buzz Aldrin takes the first selfie in space in 1966 during the Gemini XII mission, showing the sun reflecting off his visor The digital archaeologist used high-definition scans of the original film material and applied modern digital processing and enhancement techniques to make the photographs as clean and sharp as possible. He told the BBC: “There’s no reason why we shouldn’t see these important moments in history in anything but incredible quality, because they used the best cameras, the best lenses and the best film processed at the most advanced. photo lab available. It is meaningless “. All 16mm film footage was recorded by astronauts during the missions. Saunders uses a ‘stacking’ technique to produce a highly detailed image after layering and processing multiple frames. The process allowed him to reveal things not seen in earlier footage of the film. In one scene, a spot of light from the image underexposure that appeared to be a reflection of the window turned out to be Apollo 9 commander Jim McDivitt in his helmet ready to dock two spacecraft. Fred Haise tries to sleep in the cold module of Apollo 13 in 1970. The mission was supposed to land on the Moon, but an oxygen tank in the service module failed two days into the mission. The crew was forced to circle the moon and return to earth in a dramatic moment that inspired the film of the same name starring Tom Hanks On Apollo 8, Bill Anders used a clapperboard for his home movies on the rocket. The photo on the right is the original image before the Saunders restoration Breathtakingly beautiful images held at Johnson Space Center in Houston show startling new insights into life in rockets and on the surface of the moon Saunders said: “It’s just an absolutely amazing portrait of an Apollo astronaut in 1969, apparently almost looking in wonder through the window. “Actually, it’s even better than that because McDivitt is actually in the process of taking over the docking and the stakes were very high. This was the first time we had people on a spacecraft unable to get them home because they were testing the lunar module and it didn’t have a heat shield. “Well, if they didn’t make that dock, they couldn’t have come back. It’s an incredibly precious moment, an intense moment, a historic moment.’ Sanders talked to astronauts and combed through audio recordings to learn details about light and color to make the photos as realistic as possible. They described the eerie blackness of the sky and the brightness of the sun, which he has recaptured in the images.
Tim Peake told the Guardian: “When I look at these recreated images of the Apollo missions, I remember what I experienced during my six months in space. The images appear in a new book, Apollo Remastered, out tomorrow from Special Books. Saunders can also be found on Twitter and Instagram.