The Project Apollo Archive, with a collaboration with NASA, has released 8,400 high-resolution images from the agency’s historic Apollo missions.
The images are the unprocessed versions of the original scans owned by NASA. They are released publicly for the first time on Flickr, with each photo grouped into the mission film magazines in which they were exposed.
Kipp Teague, founder of Apollo Achieve, said that every lunar surface photo is included in the archive along with numerous Hasselblad photos taken from Earth, the moon and during the return journey. The project began when Johnson Space Center started reprocessing the original NASA scans in 2004, which then provided the Apollo Project the images in TIFF format.
Because the images are huge, Apollo Achieve scaled then down to better meet online viewers. However, Teague later decided to re-release them and other photos he obtained from third-party sources in a higher-resolution at 1,800 DPI, unedited for the Flickr gallery.
Most of the photos were taken by the astronauts, capturing the important moments in the mission.
The photos also include images of the astronauts walking on the moon, many shots of the lunar surface, astronauts in highlighting some of their equipment, candid shots, images of the Earth from the moon, as well as some closeups and others.
While some of the photos have high clarity, some others are blurry.
The Project Apollo Archive was started by Kipp Teague in 1999 as both an online reference source and digital image repository for NASA’s historic Apollo manned lunar landing program. The Project Apollo Archive is a companion to Eric Jones’ Apollo Lunar Surface Journal, which provides the online journal for Apollo lunar mission.