Apollo Remastered: The Sunday Times Bestseller

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Andy Saunders' remarkable digital imaging skills are rewriting space history. Saunders is doing for Project Apollo what the James Webb Space Telescope has done for astronomy: bringing our greatest adventure into sharp and arresting focus George Leopold, author of The Supersonic Life & Times Of Gus Grissom The transparencies were developed for an analog world, not for digital scanning – and the raw scans typically show an apparently significantly underexposed image. Boosting the levels however, brings out a whole host of unwanted artefacts and large areas of lower contrast, for example. Several techniques are applied to subdue these unwanted artifacts and create a balanced frame. Some of the key processing techniques subsequently applied include local level and contrast adjustments, noise reduction, and digital removal of contaminants that were not removed during film cleaning, prior to the scan. Andy Saunders' remarkable digital imaging skills are rewriting space history. Saunders is doing for Project Apollo what the James Webb Space Telescope has done for astronomy: bringing our greatest adventure into sharp and arresting focus -- George Leopold, author of The Supersonic Life & Times Of Gus Grissom Andy Saunders has created the highest quality Apollo photographs ever produced. So much thought has gone into the design and production - they are genuinely breathtaking new visions of one of humankind's greatest endeavors. * Digital Camera World Magazine * Apollo 17, 13 December 1972 Eugene Cernan’s picture of Harrison Schmitt peering into a vast crater. Photograph: Nasa/JSC/ASU/Andy Saunders

I was born in 1972 into a world where humans had walked on the moon. My mum loved space, so we watched all the space shuttle launches on television together. I remember seeing grainy images of Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin on the moon’s surface. The incredible engineering accomplishment that Apollo 11 represented opened me to the potential that we could do anything. The original Nasa photographic film from the Apollo missions is some of the most important in existence. To maintain its condition, it is securely stored in a freezer in Building 8 at Johnson Space Center, Houston. It never leaves there – in fact it rarely leaves the freezer. The images it contains include the most significant moments in our history, as humankind left our home planet for the first time. A peerless photographic masterpiece - almost as audacious as Apollo itself. If you only buy one Apollo book before the decade is out make sure it's this one! A total treasure to pore over for a lifetime Dr Chris Riley - BAFTA nominated writer, filmmaker and co-producer of In The Shadow Of The Moon In his breathtaking new book, science writer Andy Saunders shares remastered images of the first missions to the Moon, giving the most accurate view ever of these historic journeys. The results are astounding, and according to the astronauts who were actually there, they're closer to reality than anything that's gone before. Irish Independent We copy you 'down,' Eagle . . . You got a bunch of guys about to turn blue. We're breathing again - thanks a lot." -- CAPCOM mission controller / astronaut Charles Duke, earthbound but elatedPublished to coincide with the 50th anniversary of the last steps taken on the Moon, this unique, definitive 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. This book finds those images, including a few clearly showing Neil's face. We get some of Buzz's face too. Those images alone make this book worth it. Even though I worked for NASA for 40 years, I can only view the work Andy does in digital restoration of analog imagery as innovative, creative, and a gift to the world. The precision, the detail, and the validity of his work on the old film from early human spaceflight is breathtaking to me - such incredibly valuable results and contributions to these historic events -- Jim Lewis, Command Recovery Pilot, Liberty Bell 7 My main goal in taking on the project was to ensure these hugely important images could be viewed in their best possible state. With the proliferation of images online, the copies of duplicate film are now further copied again and again with ease, leading to lower and lower quality images. And these images are being seen by more and more people. Things should get better, not worse and the new scans of the original film, plus the techniques I've honed over time provide the opportunity to see these amazing moments and sights like never before.

Relive the wonder of the first humans on the Moon, now gloriously remastered and collected together in this gorgeous new book. The restored detail is astonishing, thanks to the wizardry of photo restorer Andy Saunders, who makes us feel like we are right there with them IFLS The RAW output from the digital scan of a 70mm Hasselblad frame, is a huge 1.3GB, 16-bit TIFF file, 11,000 pixels square, but they’re still essentially a digital photograph of a piece of analog film. So although they contain an incredible amount of information, they require a significant amount of careful processing to tease out the detail and produce a well balanced image. Seeing historians like Andy Saunders produce such cutting-edge results is incredible. . . Not only has Andy done a remarkable job bringing more details to light, but his incredible work has also created a lot of public excitement -- Dr Brian Odom, acting NASA Chief HistorianA peerless photographic masterpiece - almost as audacious as Apollo itself. If you only buy one Apollo book before the decade is out make sure it's this one! A total treasure to pore over for a lifetime -- Dr Chris Riley - BAFTA nominated writer, filmmaker and co-producer of In The Shadow Of The Moon Now we can view them as never before. Expert image restorer Andy Saunders has taken 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 endeavours. Und es ist tatsächlich eine wunderbare Ergänzung: scharfe Fotos in brillanten Farben im Großformat sind es Seite für Seite wert, die Augen wandern und staunen zu lassen - über die Schönheit des Planeten und seinem Mond und vor allem über den Mut der Astronauten!