Posted on 08/31/2022 1:57:45 PM PDT by algore
Man aspired to go to the Moon, John F, Kennedy said, 'not because it is easy, but because it is hard.'
And photo restorer Andy Saunders has applied that same incredible ambition and determination to painstakingly rework 35,000 photos from the Apollo missions that had been stored in a locked NASA freezer until now.
The hauntingly beautiful images kept under lock and key at Johnson Space Center, Houston, show amazing new insights about life on board the rockets and on the surface of the moon.
Since the footage was kept in the vaults for so long, almost every Apollo image has been based on copies of the master duplicates of the originals, leading to a gradual degradation in quality.
Now, with his access to the source film material, Saunders has been able to shine a light on a dark corner of space and modern history, and the trove has now been branded the 'ultimate photographic record of humankind’s greatest adventure'.
There is also the first clear photo of life inside the doomed Apollo 13 mission that saw the astronauts forced to return to earth in the Lunar Module, as well as images of the golf ball hit by Alan Shepard on the Moon.
The astronaut joked on his return it flew 'miles and miles' but the photo shows it actually traveled around 40 yards.
Saunders, a property developer from Cheshire, left his job to devote all his time to reworking the images in the secret archive.
The digital archaeologist used high-definition scans of the original film material, and applied modern digital editing and enhancing techniques to make the photos as clear and crisp as possible.
He told the BBC: 'There's no reason why we shouldn't be seeing these important moments in history
(Excerpt) Read more at dailymail.co.uk ...
And now after he photoshopped them pixel by pixel they are totally amazing.
I suppose we are also supposed to believe that all this stuff was found in an abandoned McDonalds near Mar-A-Lago
https://www.mentalfloss.com/article/21609/recovering-nasa-history-abandoned-mcdonalds
With this amazing 35,000 photos from 50 years ago being released, I can barely wait now for the billion photos that most assuredly will be released 200 years from now.
(higher numbers reflect inflation)
Photo restorer Andy Saunders is an honorable person for respecting the photos from Apollo 11.
No. You're asked to believe that a group of volunteers set up shop in an abandoned McDonalds using obsolete computer equipment which they restored to read and recover data from those tapes.
Need to see the originals. 6x6cm negs from a Hasselblad can be pretty sweet.
Sweden’s first artificial satellite was a Hasselblad camera lost by Michael Collins(?) during a Gemini spacewalk.
I guess you can freeze anything and it will keep indefinitely
Alice Kramden?
“You’re asked to believe that a group of volunteers set up shop in an abandoned McDonalds using obsolete computer equipment which they restored to read and recover data from those tapes.”
I have read lots of Sci-Fi in the last 50 years. Even L. Ron Hubbard wrote stuff more believable than Nasa.
Your response is both irrational and insulting.
Not everybody is mired in mediocrity.
Have a nice day.
Ha Ha! Good one.
That moon’s got freezer burn.
... we never landed on the moon ... for some reason, we had a technological breakthrough that let us go in the 60s - 70s - but almost 60 years later not a single country has ever stepped on the moon. Every country that planned to do it, canceled it. Tesla can land booster rockets on a quarter, but no moon for you!
When I was a kid in the mid ‘70s my dad was doing work with NASA and someone there gave him some color slides that supposedly were unreleased photos taken on one of the Apollo missions (not sure if it was Apollo 11). We plugged in the slide projector, looked at them once (cool!) and my dad put them in a drawer. I saw them a couple of times after that, still sitting but when he passed and my mom moved I really wanted to find them and they were nowhere to be found. There was nothing spectacular, like aliens or pyramids on the moon or anything but still, bummer.
Do not expect that all pics are from space.
When looking at new NASA moon pictures, I now wonder which were taken by Stanley Kubrick.
Some say man cannot get thru the Van Allen Radiation belts.
I know the lunar module pilot for Apollo 16. I’ve known dozens of NASA engineers from that period and Chris Kraft. We went to the moon.
As a young guy I ran all of Johnson Space Center. Until I came across John Glen who was getting a ride on STS-95 and I told him he was a dick for bumping someone else who had trained for the flight for years. Oops, no more getting in the back door at Johnson.
We went to the moon.
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