Recovered photos of the Apollo lunar missions

Photographer and historian Andy Saunders has reviewed more than 35,000 photos published by NASA in recent years, and meticulously restored a number of images from the Apollo missions. These images were included in his book Apollo remastered, which is preparing for publication for the upcoming 50th anniversary of the first manned landing on the moon.

Here are some of the photos he was able to recover.

1. The dashboard of the lunar car, which was first used in the Apollo 15 mission. It is a lightweight electric vehicle designed to travel on the lunar surface.

2. A reconstructed panorama of the lunar module, in which the Apollo 15 astronauts lived from July 30 to August 2, 1971. This is the longest lunar expedition, which lasted 295 hours.

3. Reconstructed panorama of the first use of the lunar car (with annotations). This image required processing of separate frames with their subsequent gluing into one.

4. David Scott in the moon car.

5. Collecting lunar samples was the main task of Apollo 15. Among the materials brought to Earth, one of the most famous remains the Genesis Stone - a sample of soil about 4.1 billion years old.

6. Reconstructed lunar panorama taken after collecting samples.

7. Reconstructed snapshot of the first traces of the lunar car (before and after).

8. Recovered photo of the commemorative plaque on the lunar car.

9. A reconstructed photo of the lunar surface taken from the Apollo command and service module.

10. Reconstructed photo of the Earth from the lunar surface.