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Apollo Remastered
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This definitive photographic book about the Apollo missions reveals hundreds of extraordinary, newly-restored, and all-new images from the NASA archives that provide a never-before-seen perspective on the Apollo endeavors more than 50 years after humankind first stepped foot on the moon.
In Houston, Texas, there is a frozen vault that preserves the original NASA photographic film of the Apollo missions. For half a century, almost every image of the Moon landings publicly available was produced from a lower-quality copy of these frozen originals. Over the last few years, NASA image restorer Andy Saunders has been working hard. Taking newly available digital scans and applying pain-staking care and cutting-edge enhancement techniques, he has created the highest quality Apollo photographs ever produced. Never-before-seen spacewalks and crystal-clear portraits of astronauts in their spacecraft, along with startling new visions of the Earth and the Moon, offer astounding new insight into one of our greatest endeavors.
This is the definitive record of all Apollo missions and a mesmerizing, high-definition journey into the unknown. And, now, Saunders's photographs bring the story of the Apollo missions to life in the new film The Moonwalkers: A Journey with Tom Hanks.
In Houston, Texas, there is a frozen vault that preserves the original NASA photographic film of the Apollo missions. For half a century, almost every image of the Moon landings publicly available was produced from a lower-quality copy of these frozen originals. Over the last few years, NASA image restorer Andy Saunders has been working hard. Taking newly available digital scans and applying pain-staking care and cutting-edge enhancement techniques, he has created the highest quality Apollo photographs ever produced. Never-before-seen spacewalks and crystal-clear portraits of astronauts in their spacecraft, along with startling new visions of the Earth and the Moon, offer astounding new insight into one of our greatest endeavors.
This is the definitive record of all Apollo missions and a mesmerizing, high-definition journey into the unknown. And, now, Saunders's photographs bring the story of the Apollo missions to life in the new film The Moonwalkers: A Journey with Tom Hanks.
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“This book was so impressive. I don't have any other word. It's big to begin with, over 6lbs (I know that because I read the super-confusing section on cameras in space at the end). It's not one to have on your lap while you're watching tv, you have to commit. Each Apollo mission gets its own chapter, with an introductory page about the astronauts, the mission and the photography (it isn't just 'here are some photos', it's a book about photography in space), then you get the shots. All on black paper, in gorgeous definition, and with accompanying captions either giving context, or transcriptions of the astronauts' transmissions as they were taking the shots. It's amazing to me how many burly astro-dudes in the 1960s were comfortable calling each other 'babe'!
Then there's the photos themselves. We're so desensitized to space photos now: we see satellite imagery all the time, we even demand it. But these photos some how bring back home just how remarkable these missions were, how dangerous and unknown, and how moving they must have been for the men involved. The fact that John Glenn took a shop-bought camera into space and made it work, that we get to see candid shots of the astronauts just doing regular astronaut stuff, smiling for the camera, accidentally letting go of one of the Hasselblads while on a space walk, or leaving film cannisters behind on the moon (dorks!). It brings to life this incredible exploration and makes it human and very real. Some of these photos made me well up, as much as was possible I felt like I was experiencing the first look at an earthrise or the lunar far-side alongside the astronauts.
If I had one small criticism it's that the captions under the photos are in varying shades of grey on black paper, making it quite hard to read: I had to keep tilting the book to get the light in the right place. But that's such a tiny thing. I cannot stress how enjoyable this book was, and what an amazing record it is. I know I will go back to it again and again.”
“5.00
Primera lectura de 2023, primer 5.00 del año. ❤️”
About Andy Saunders
Andy Saunders is one of the world's foremost experts of NASA digital restoration. His work has been exhibited at museums, and appeared in BBC News, Daily Telegraph, Smithsonian's Air & Space Magazine, Ars Technica, The Washington Post, as well as in NASA's own archives. He lives in Manchester, England.
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