The best Apollo photo books
There are several excellent books with the photographs of the Apollo missions. We made one of them, so we are not neutral, but we own and admire the others too. This is an honest overview to help you choose.
| Book | Year | Publisher |
|---|---|---|
| Apollo VII–XVII (Revised and Extended Edition) Floris Heyne, Joel Meter, Simon Phillipson, Delano Steenmeijer | 2018; revised edition 2025 | teNeues |
| Apollo Remastered Andy Saunders | 2022 | Particular Books (Penguin) / Black Dog & Leventhal |
| Full Moon Michael Light | 1999 | Alfred A. Knopf |
| Picturing Apollo 11 J.L. Pickering and John Bisney | 2019 | University Press of Florida |
| Apollo: Through the Eyes of the Astronauts edited by Robert Jacobs | 2009 | Abrams |
Apollo VII–XVII (Revised and Extended Edition)
Floris Heyne, Joel Meter, Simon Phillipson, Delano Steenmeijer, 2018; revised edition 2025. 255 restored photographs from all crewed Apollo missions (7–17), essays by astronauts Walter Cunningham and Rusty Schweickart, 336 pages, 27 × 27 cm. This is our book.
Apollo Remastered
Andy Saunders, 2022. About 400 restored photographs over 456 pages, a large format and many awards, including TIME Best Photobooks 2022. Saunders also made a second book, Gemini & Mercury Remastered. If you want the largest selection, this is it.
Full Moon
Michael Light, 1999. The classic: a sequence of Apollo photographs from the NASA masters, presented as one imaginary journey to the Moon and back. Still a reference for how to sequence these images.
Picturing Apollo 11
J.L. Pickering and John Bisney, 2019. Focuses on Apollo 11 only, with many rare and lesser-known photographs from before, during and after the mission.
Apollo: Through the Eyes of the Astronauts
edited by Robert Jacobs, 2009. Photographs from the missions, with commentary from the astronauts themselves.
Which one should you choose?
Want the biggest selection and a large format: Apollo Remastered. Want the classic, artistic sequence: Full Moon. Interested in Apollo 11 only: Picturing Apollo 11. Want every crewed mission from Apollo 7 to 17 in one volume, with the astronauts’ own essays, at a more compact size: Apollo VII–XVII.
Browse our restored photographs by mission, see inside Apollo VII–XVII or read what reviewers said.