Astronaut Jim Lovell died this month, aged 97, one of the last of the original pioneers of space exploration. He missed out on Nasa’s early Mercury missions but was selected for the Gemini programme, and then the Apollo missions which saw space travel go from brief suborbital hops to aiming for the moon in only a few trips.

The monumental scale of these missions has been brought to new light by Cheshire-based digital archaeologist Andy Saunders , who has painstakingly restored film from the missions (using no AI ) that had been sitting in a frozen vault for decades.

He tells us how spaceflight’s early milestones compare with the next generation of the space race today.

As well as an author, I tend to say I’m an imaging specialist, but yes, digital archaeologist works too! I’m wo

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