Gemini and Mercury Remastered

Wickedly exciting. In the history of peace-making endeavors, has there ever been such an effective speed-the-process effort than putting a human being on the surface of the Moon AND returning them safely to the Earth, in a race against time and the laws of physics? I don’t think so. Mercury and Gemini had an infinite list of challenges to prove, beginning with ‘is this even possible in the first place’?Would Alan Shepard burn up falling to his splashdown? Would John Glenn choke on a pill he took to prove he could swallow in orbit? Would Ed White, Eugene Cernan, and Michael Collins be able to get back into their spacecraft after their spacewalks? Could Frank Borman and Jim Lovell survive a full two weeks in outer space? No one knew, until the programs were completed. Mercury and Gemini were as noble an undertaking as America dared to command, and here you will witness these moments through Saunders’ remastered imagery and truly experience history

Turning the pages of Gemini & Mercury Remastered triggered many strong emotions - it provides an unprecedented trip back in time to the beginning of our nation’s manned space program. We had a lot to learn, and it was often luck that got us home. After Mercury, three impossibly short years remained to develop and prove the capabilities for Apollo, during Project Gemini. All of this history is covered extensively in the book via the new imagery, captions and Saunders’ expert research.Throughout, I see faces that I came to know so well and, for the first time after 60 years, Saunders’ magic touch has allowed us all to see them in sharp focus during their groundbreaking missions. The restored images bring everything to life - they are a vibrant, new, living record of ‘our time’ - depicting perfectly the character of the men, the passion to achieve the next ‘first’, and the whole era of early human space exploration for which I was a part

Andy Saunders is one of the world’s foremost experts of NASA digital restoration and author of the Sunday Times bestselling Apollo Remastered. His work has been exhibited internationally, and he collaborated with Tom Hanks to produce The Moonwalkers – an immersive show telling the story of the Apollo missions. His photographs have also appeared in BBC News, Daily Telegraph, Smithsonian Magazine, New York Times, as well as in NASA’s own archives. In 2019, he created the only clear, recognisable image of Neil Armstrong on the Moon, and in 2023, he received the Royal Photographic Society Award for Scientific Imaging.