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COVER REVEAL! #ApolloRemastered is now available in China! Featuring Pete Conrad on Apollo 12, the cover is very different to other editions, but I love it! If you have friends / colleagues in China, it can be purchased here: tinyurl.com/d4mky394

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The press is going like the clappers here in Trento, Italy, printing Gemini & Mercury Remastered. It's looking incredible and is out in just 3 months 🚀 And if you pre-order now from @waterstones.bsky.social you'll get 25% off!! (Enter 'Gemini25' at checkout)

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Still time to book for Saturday's Hurter & Driffield Memorial Lecture 2025 @mediamuseum.bsky.social in Bradford, West Yorshire. We're excited to have @andysaunders-1.bsky.social presenting 'Apollo Remastered'. Book tickets and full details here. events.rps.org/en/g/z9tTjH8...

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#OTD 1961 America's first astronaut Alan Shepard stepped from a trailer into the dark as searchlights illuminated his Redstone rocket. Flight Director Chris Kraft felt a wave of excitement as Shepard looked up at the rocket; light reflecting off his silver suit – he looked like a 'spaceman'.

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#OTD 1961 America's first astronaut Alan Shepard stepped from a trailer into the dark as searchlights illuminated his Redstone rocket. Flight Director Chris Kraft felt a wave of excitement as Shepard looked up at the rocket; light reflecting off his silver suit – he looked like a 'spaceman'.

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On what would've been Scott Carpenter's 100th birthday! One of the original 'Mercury 7', his 16mm pilot cam film was water damaged at splashdown & couldn't be effectively developed. 63 years on, we can finally see him clearly during flight, after restoring the film for #GeminiAndMercuryRemastered

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On the 55th anniversary of Apollo 13 this week - the most detailed look yet at the damage caused by the explosion. Created from 22 separate Hasselblad frames, digitally remastered from scans of the original film, aligned / animated and interpolated.

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Happy 97th Birthday Jim Lovell! 🚀Gemini VII (world's 1st space rendezvous & longevity record) 🚀Gemini XII 🚀Apollo 8 (first to voyage to the Moon) 🚀Here; Commander of Apollo 13 (image created from 16mm film) Legend! Jim is heavily featured in the upcoming book...and loves it! 🚀

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TODAY! Is the 60th anniversary of the first manned mission of Project Gemini Gemini 3 was crewed by Gus Grissom and John Young. The first US multi-crewed spaceflight was short but conducted the world's first intentional maneuver in space. 1/3 #GeminiAndMercuryRemastered

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TODAY! Is the 60th anniversary of the first manned mission of Project Gemini Gemini 3 was crewed by Gus Grissom and John Young. The first US multi-crewed spaceflight was short but conducted the world's first intentional maneuver in space. 1/3 #GeminiAndMercuryRemastered

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The Apollo Remastered exhibition is now OPEN at Queen's Hall, Hexham. 30+ images across two floors plus projected panoramas. FREE to enter, Mon-Sat 10-4. Thank you to @kielderobservatory.bsky.social and all who came along for the live podcast. Tickets for the talk on April 16: tinyurl.com/mh2xy4at

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Wow! Just in. Today's lunar eclipse, captured from the perspective of the Moon itself, by @firefly-aerospace.bsky.social Blue Ghost lander! It shows the Sun emerging from behind Earth.

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#OTD in 1969, EVA's were undertaken on Apollo 9 by Dave Scott & Rusty Schweickart. In this pin-sharp reprocessed image, Schweickart is floating around the LM window as he tests the PLSS for the first time. The next time the PLSS was used, was by Neil Armstrong on the Moon.

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"Picking up some dust." Spectacular footage from the Moon - it may look like science fiction, but it's science fact. Credit: @firefly-aerospace.bsky.social

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#OTD 1969. Apollo 9. Such is the resolution, once enhanced, the tiny 0.6mm dot on this half-century old film frame reveals the Saturn V 3rd stage (S-IVB) as it is remotely fired into an orbit around the Sun. McDivitt: ‘It's just like a bright star disappearing into the distance.’

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#OTD 1969. Apollo 9. Such is the resolution, once enhanced, the tiny 0.6mm dot on this half-century old film frame reveals the Saturn V 3rd stage (S-IVB) as it is remotely fired into an orbit around the Sun. McDivitt: ‘It's just like a bright star disappearing into the distance.’

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Good grief check out this photo just in from the Moon!! Huge congratulations to @firefly-aerospace.bsky.social #BlueGhost's shadow, the lunar surface and Earth above. Wow.

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Delighted and honoured to be invited to give the 2025 Royal Photographic Society's Hurter & Driffield Memorial Lecture. At the National Science & Media Museum, Bradford, May 10th, 14:30. Also open to the public - Info: tinyurl.com/bdhfmmk2 Tickets: tinyurl.com/y2upr288

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Delighted and honoured to be invited to give the 2025 Royal Photographic Society's Hurter & Driffield Memorial Lecture. At the National Science & Media Museum, Bradford, May 10th, 14:30. Also open to the public - Info: tinyurl.com/bdhfmmk2 Tickets: tinyurl.com/y2upr288

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Happening right now around the Moon! This video gets better every time I see it. Earthset to Earthrise. Good luck with the landing #BlueGhost Credit: Firefly Aerospace

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The crew of Apollo 14 found it difficult to sleep - partly due to the angle at which they landed. They felt they were slipping down into a crater, and Ed Mitchell would regularly lift the blinds to check they were not. Wonderful clarity in this small section of the full panorama.

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The crew of Apollo 14 found it difficult to sleep - partly due to the angle at which they landed. They felt they were slipping down into a crater, and Ed Mitchell would regularly lift the blinds to check they were not. Wonderful clarity in this small section of the full panorama.

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#OTD 1962. John Glenn watches his Atlas booster 'fall away' against the curvature of Earth through the window of his Mercury capsule. We can watch too in this new processed section of the 16mm film, reflected in his visor. #GeminiAndMercuryRemastered is coming...

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#OTD 1962. John Glenn watches his Atlas booster 'fall away' against the curvature of Earth through the window of his Mercury capsule. We can watch too in this new processed section of the 16mm film, reflected in his visor. #GeminiAndMercuryRemastered is coming...

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Searching for Ed Mitchell, searching for Cone crater. "[Let's] take a break, get the map, and see if we can find out exactly where we are." Recovered from overexposed film, and a sun-struck dusty lens, here is Mitchell #OTD in 1971, checking his map during EVA-2 on Apollo 14:

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On this day in 1971, Alan Shepard brought the Lunar Module 'Antares' down in this utterly wondrous place. Seen here in #ApolloRemastered. In the upcoming #GeminiAndMercuryRemastered, we'll see Shepard up close, aboard 'Freedom 7' as he became the first American in space.

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On this day in 1971, Alan Shepard brought the Lunar Module 'Antares' down in this utterly wondrous place. Seen here in #ApolloRemastered. In the upcoming #GeminiAndMercuryRemastered, we'll see Shepard up close, aboard 'Freedom 7' as he became the first American in space.

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