Andy Saunders - Apollo Remastered

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Author of Sunday Times Bestseller, Apollo Remastered. Writer & imaging specialist - restoring humankind's finest moments, including Armstrong's first steps. Gemini & Mercury Remastered coming soon... https://linktr.ee/apolloremastered

#OTD 1971. Apollo 15, EVA-3. Capcom: "Dave, give me a call on your present activity." Scott: "Oh, just cleaning up the back of the rover here, a little." In fact, Scott was secretly placing a memorial - the fallen astronaut and plaque, seen behind the rover in this two-shot panorama from the book:

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Very sad to hear the news of the passing of the great David Hockney today. A true icon of British art. It was certainly an honour to witness his priceless reaction to the Apollo Remastered panoramas at our Moonwalkers show opening night in London a couple of years ago. Ad astra🙏

60 years ago TODAY - Gemini IX-A "The spacewalk from hell" - Gene Cernan. Everything went wrong and he was fortunate to escape with his life, but he did take some truly stunning photographs! This light damaged shot, now remastered, is a glorious portrait of the Gemini spacecraft.

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For those actually interested in this UFO / UAP stuff from the DoW / Pentagon, I've identified the Apollo 17 photograph in question: Here's a zoom of the relevant area taken from a full-res scan of the original camera film (same scans I used for my book, but no, this particular one isn't in it):

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The Earth and the Moon aren't the only interesting things in this photograph, taken 54 years ago today - April 20, 1972. Apollo 16's Charlie Duke and John Young were in the Lunar Module when Charlie captured this wonderful shot. Ken Mattingly is in the other spacecraft seen orbiting the Moon.

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Wait for it to focus... Sound up... Earthset, recorded by Reid Wiseman during the Artemis II lunar flyby. The initial imperfect composition, and the phone hunting for focus makes this so much more human and familiar. A celestial scene witnessed by only 28 of us in history...more