Gemini mission images restored

NASA's freshly-restored film images of the Gemini missions are now online. The classic shots of spaceship exteriors and Earth from orbit are breathtaking. Yet the weird misfires, such as unfocused shots of instrument panels, have their own otherworldly charm.

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>Yet the weird misfires, such as unfocused shots of instrument panels, have their own otherworldly charm.

Same thought here, that’s why I collected some of them in an own Flickr-Set:http://www.flickr.com/photos/nerdcoreblog/sets/72157628810724709/
http://noctilucent-studios.blogspot.com/ Noctilucent Studios

Speaking of otherworldly, check out the weird blue lines in this one.

http://tothemoon.ser.asu.edu/data_g/G09/Hasselblad-SuperWideAngle/full/S66-38062_G09-S_f.png
- Ryan_T_H
  
  Those lines represent damage to the negative. Either some sort of unintentional exposure or physical stress. You can tell because they go right off the frame.
- MarcVader
  
  Whoa! Huge 35MB file! That’s not “check out”, that’s download.
VicqRuiz

Great link Rob. The first space missions I can remember watching were the last few Geminis.

Everything about Gemini was cool.

The laconic test-pilot crews, the “firsts” achieved on so many missions, the great hardware (I loved the howl and bang of the Titan engines on ignition, and the way the bird just leaped into the air) and most of all the sense that we were really starting to do things in space, rather than just seeing if we could survive getting there and back.
michaelgillman

These images are incredible. I’m going to give my printer a workout, and put some of this etherial scienceart on my walls.
Gemma

I don’t think I ever got a film back from the developers without finding one of my precious, expensive, 24 photographs had been an accidental shot of the ground as I was fiddling with the camera.

I’m glad that even astronauts also had the same problem.
http://pulse.yahoo.com/_KAEQZEBRGYXXKUSBX42QILO7NI yahoo-KAEQZEBRGYXXKUSBX42QILO7NI

blown away how awesome and abstract some of these images are.. decided to retouch and print up some of them.. http://wayfarersjunket.tumblr.com/