Andy Saunders

Andy Saunders is a British author, science writer, and one of the world’s foremost experts of NASA digital restoration. His photographic work has been exhibited internationally at some of the most renowned venues, and regularly makes headlines in the world press – including BBC News, CBS News, New York Times, Daily Telegraph, USA Today, Fox News, and Washington Post, among others. His remastered images have also been utilised by NASA and reside in their own archives.

From the hugely under-exposed original frame, Saunders reveals a stunning portrait of Commander Jim McDivitt undertaking

In 2019 he produced the clearest ever image of Neil Armstrong on the Moon, for the 50th anniversary of Apollo 11. He went on to reveal life on board the stricken Apollo 13 mission, and in 2021 found Alan Shepard’s golf ball on the lunar surface – finally revealing how far the “miles and miles” shot went, half a century after the event. Later the same year his imaging work and analysis helped to solve one of NASA’s most enduring mysteries, by determining the most likely cause of the sinking of Gus Grissom’s Liberty Bell 7 spacecraft, 60 years after the world’s 3rd spaceflight; finally vindicating Grissom.

A stitched panorama of Apollo 15’s Lunar Module in the mountainous Hadley-Apennine region of the Moon, July, 1971.

Andy is a regular contributor to science-based media and appears on TV, radio, and as a guest speaker at events to discuss the history of spaceflight, photography and digital image enhancement/restoration. He has also published articles in Smithsonian Magazine, Discover Magazine, USGA Journal, Air Force Magazine and Astronomy Magazine among others.

His book, Apollo Remastered, will be released in September 2022, initially in the UK, North America, China and France. The exhibition will launch at London’s Royal Albert Hall on September 21st 2022.