Mankind's giant leap as never seen before: 35,000 photographs from NASA's original Apollo moon missions are unlocked from the freezer for the first time in fifty years and restored pixel by pixel to reveal real out-of-this world images of life in space
Film from the Apollo missions has been kept in a locked freezer at the Johnson Space Center for 50 years
Digital archaeologist Andy Saunders has gone through 35,000 images to restore them to full glory
They reveal stunning insights about the historic missions, and show the beauty of space
By Jack Newman For Mailonline
Published: 11:42 EDT, 31 August 2022 | Updated: 13:41 EDT, 31 August 2022
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'.
The first portrait of another human in space was taken in 1965 showing Ed White leaving the aircraft of Gemini IV in 1965, captured by James McDivitt
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