APOLLO 9 RESTORED FLIGHT IMAGES COLLECTION & EXCLUSIVE FILM WITH RUSTY SCHWEICKART

Apollospace® proudly presents the most comprehensive collection of fully restored and enhanced Apollo 9 flight images at the highest quality and resolution available

Plus exclusive documentary featuring Apollo 9 Astronaut Rusty Schweickart!

Apollo 9, the first fully stacked Saturn V manned Apollo mission and the first manned flight of the lunar module

1378 high resolution flight images from the historic Apollo 9 Mission ? every image photographed by astronauts during this historic mission ? fully restored and enhanced at the highest quality and resolution available!

Each JPEG image on this commemorative USB collection measures 5200 x 5200 pixels at 300 dpi. The individual image files on this USB are huge ? averaging over 20 megabytes in size each.

The 1378 flight images contained on this USB together total more than 26 gigabytes in size ? That?s enough to fill 7 DVDs!

And on top of the highest quality and resolution Apollo 9 images you get our exclusive film with Apollo 9 Astronaut Rusty Schweickart "Rusty Schweickart: Apollo 9 & Beyond" which was the featured film for Asteroid Day 2020

The film is in beautiful 4K with a run time of 48 minutes - you can watch on your computer or plug the USB into a 4K TV for best quality viewing

Our fourth film in the "Apollo Reflections" series, features Rusty Schweickart, Apollo 9 Lunar Module Pilot. In this profoundly beautiful and moving film, Apollo 9 Astronaut Rusty Schweickart discusses the Apollo 9 mission, his life-altering spacewalk, and our cosmic birth. Rusty describes testing the Lunar Module, the first true spaceship that would four months later land men on the moon; his historic spacewalk, the first EVA of the Apollo era; and the incredible beauty of the Earth from space.

Beyond the Apollo 9 mission itself, Rusty goes much deeper to explore the philosophical and evolutionary implications of humanity's first steps into the cosmos, describing the powerful effects of his "five minutes" alone on the Lunar Module porch as he observed the Earth below and pondered the big questions of existence - questions he would come to answer back on Earth. The film is in 4K with a run time of 48 minutes.

Praise for Rusty Schweickart: Apollo 9 & Beyond and other films in the Apollo Reflections Series:

"Astronaut Rusty Schweickart's story is one of the great ones, and the way this film ["Rusty Schweickart: Apollo 9 & Beyond"] tells the story has its own greatness," Stewart Brand, co-founder of Long Now Foundation and creator and editor of the Whole Earth Catalog (National Book Award).

"What was the real meaning of Apollo? The big meaning? That's what I asked myself anticipating the 50th anniversary of that historic moment. Jeremy Theoret captured it in this film? this is what I believe. No small challenge." Apollo 9 astronaut Rusty Schweickart.

"I am proud and honored to have been helpful in producing the beautiful piece of art that is this film. From the music to the visuals to what comes out of the mind of an amazing human being, this is a seamless and for me deeply emotional work that is a major contribution to the annals of space and also human history. You have produced something very special with this. What I get from it cannot be measured in any form of currency. I want to savor the incredibly warm feeling this film has given me, thank you for that gift." Martin Lollar, crowdfunding executive producer of the film.

"I have just reviewed the film you produced and it looks perfect to me. I think you did an outstanding job of capturing the important points that you wanted to bring out concerning the Gemini and Apollo programs." Gen. Tom Stafford, Gemini 6, 9, Apollo 10, & ASTP astronaut

"great productions. I like your down to earth more informal interview style. Keep up the good work. NASA has lots of oral history but it is not as interesting and personalized as what you create. Thanks for your great work preserving some history from those who flew!" Fred Haise, Apollo 13 LMP

"what a wonderful and amazing film. Fred Haise provides such a terrific narrative. The clarity of the filming of Fred's historical and anecdotal recounting as well as the crystal-clear photographs is remarkable. It gives me great pride to have my name associated with this film and thank you for the exquisite and professional product." Arthur Siemientkowski, producer of "Apollo 13 in Pictures and Words."

The Apollo 9 Flight Images:

At 5200 pixels, the Apollo 9 1378 flight images on this USB are up to 65% larger than partially restored and corrected counterparts available online and on other commercially available media, which generally measure only up to 3000 pixels each, are only a few megabytes in size (if that), and have not been fully corrected and cleaned.

Each and every image on The Apollo 9 Flight Images USB has been painstakingly cropped and corrected for color, tone, and contrast and cleaned of all blemishes including dust, hairs, scan lines, emulsion spots, streaks, scratches, stray reflections, and other flaws.

It is common for images to require as many as several hundred separate corrective actions to achieve the restored, corrected, and enhanced versions available on this USB. It is impossible to overstate the quality and beauty of these photographs - the most pristine they've appeared since they were originally taken 50 years ago. The original negatives from the Apollo missions are stored in frozen vaults at Johnson Space Center (JSC) in Houston, TX. Master inter-negatives were produced from the originals in order to preserve the originals while being to reproduce photographs, meaning successive generations of photographs were often produced from 2^nd, 3^rd, or later generations of negatives. JSC digitally scanned the Apollo Program photographs for the 40^th anniversary of Apollo in and around 2005 and later. These raw images can be seen on the National Archives website and various NASA image galleries online. More recently, JSC has been re-scanning the original negatives at the highest resolutions ever in preparation for the 50^th anniversary of Apollo, pursuant to a Space Act Agreement between Arizona State University (ASU) and NASA's Johnson Space Center. The raw images used in creating the images found on The Apollo 9 Flight Images USB were acquired from ASU. Unfortunately, until today, the majority of these scanned images have not been available anywhere as completely restored, corrected, and enhanced high resolution images. What there is, are collections of images in raw, unprocessed form, or partially or marginally processed images that fail to fully showcase these images as they truly deserve to be seen.

This USB is changing that.

More than an historical record of one of the greatest accomplishments in human history, these images are also art. Each photograph appearing on this USB was taken by a human hand and with a human eye. 50 years later, each one been restored, corrected, and enhanced with a human eye as well, to be as visually pleasing as they are historically and naturally accurate.

Just compare the raw and partially corrected images from the Apollo 9 Mission currently available online and on other commercially available media with the fully restored versions available on this commemorative USB:

Below is the raw scanned image of image AS09-22-3473. The lack of detail and fogginess of the image are obvious, as are dark blemishes to the right of the island at lower center in the image.