[2] He worked in logistics management and home renovations before he began restoring old film of the Apollo space missions.
[2] Saunders started working on historic film in around 2010[3] when he applied a stacking technique to 16 mm movie footage "to produce a clear, recognisable image of Neil Armstrong on the moon".
[4] In 2020 he developed a digital processing technique for film which helped reveal life on board Apollo 13 mission,[5] and published a detailed photographic analysis for NASA, of the damage caused by the explosion that crippled the Service Module.
[8] From 2019 to 2022, Saunders undertook a project to assess NASA's archive of 35,000 still photographs and 10 hours of 16 mm movie footage and digitally remaster the film.
[15] The Apollo Remastered exhibition opened in September 2022 at London's Royal Albert Hall, before moving to Glasgow,[16] the United Arab Emirates,[17] Jodrell Bank,[18] and the Williamson Art Gallery and Museum in north west England.