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Andy Saunders - Apollo Remastered Profile picture
Andy Saunders - Apollo Remastered
@AndySaunders_1
Author of Sunday Times Bestseller, Apollo Remastered. Writer & imaging specialist - restoring humankind's finest moments, including Armstrong's first steps.
Apr 3 • 5 tweets • 2 min read
Left - Apollo 17, 1972
Right - Artemis II, 2026

Two photographs taken by one of us, of all of us, over half a century apart.

What's changed? Image
Image Ref the first image - it was taken with a Hasselblad 70mm camera & 80mm lens, from 18,000 n. miles.
Know as the Blue Marble, it's the most viewed and reproduced photograph in history. It was remastered (for the first time ever) from the original flight film, for my book in 2022.
Apr 20, 2022 • 7 tweets • 3 min read
50 years ago today, Apollo 16 passed by the far side of the #Moon, out of contact with #Earth, and encountered serious problems.
The problems facilitated this photograph. One of my favourites - it instantly conveys the awe-inspiring nature of human space exploration: 1/7 Due to a problem with the SPS engine (needed to get them home), the crew had to station-keep for 4 hours while Mission Control considered whether the landing should be aborted. Even an Apollo 13-style use of the LM's descent engine to propel them home was being considered. 2/7
Feb 20, 2022 • 9 tweets • 4 min read
This is not a scene from a #scifi movie - this is real life #OTD 1962!
For the 60th anniversary of John Glenn's historic flight, the imagery has been brought into the 21st century. Full images documenting the flight in THREAD:
#ApolloRemastered 1/7 Glenn became the 1st American to orbit Earth on 20th February 1962.
The 60-year-old 16mm flight film (thanks @steveslater1987) has undergone a transformative process, utilising over 1,000 image samples of the film per image, to bring out never-before-seen detail: 2/7
Jan 18, 2022 • 6 tweets • 3 min read
Classic design - that Apollo 11 patch.
NASA had no input initially, with @AstroMCollins taking the lead on design. The crew agreed it should represent a peaceful landing, by the US. It was Jim Lovell who suggested the American Eagle, which Collins traced from a @NatGeo mag... 1/6 onto some tissue paper. He then sketched in the lunar surface and later the Earth (albeit incorrectly, as it should be rotated 90 degrees). Tom Wilson, the crew's simulator instructor overheard a conversation about further developing the design and suggested the eagle should 2/6