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Book: Apollo Remastered
I received a few books for Christmas and I thought this one would be worth mentioning in the Omega forum, for obvious reasons. The British author, Andy Saunders, was given access to NASA’s store of film of images captured during the Mercury, Gemini and Apollo missions. Normally the film is kept frozen at the Johnson Space Centre in Houston but it was defrosted and cleaned and Mr Saunders set to work remastering the images.
This article on the BBC news website explains more about the process and shows some incredible “before” and “after” shots:
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-62662685
The results of the remastering are amazingly clear images. Some of the images are already very famous, others less so, but I found all of them fascinating. The book contains over 400 images. Here is a small selection:
Ed White during the earlier Gemini 4 mission:
The BBC article shows the underexposed “before” image of the following photo, which was also used on the book’s cover. The remastering of the image to get the photo below is just amazing. James McDivitt on the Apollo 9 mission:
All the best,
Jon
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Book: Apollo Remastered
I received a few books for Christmas and I thought this one would be worth mentioning in the Omega forum, for obvious reasons. The British author, Andy Saunders, was given access to NASA’s store of film of images captured during the Mercury, Gemini and Ap...
Hi Jon …
It’s a superb book and definitely one to own. I have a copy and can recommend it. Thanks for sharing this with us.
Yes, he is!
I remember watching the documentary of the Apollo 11 mission on the 50th anniversary of the launch in 2019 and the documentary showed the heart rates of the 3 astronauts just before launch. Buzz’s heart rate was pretty normal but the hearts of the other t...
Phenomenal.
I will have to get it myself foreseeably. Thanks a bunch for the pictures! Cheers, Filip
