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Skylab completists, clear some shelf space for 26 DVDs
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Decades of archive hunting recover downlinks, silent reels, and footage once thought lost.
Key facts
- The team looked at Volumes 1 and 2, which cover SL-1 (the launch), SL-2 (the first crew, comprising Pete Conrad, Joseph Kerwin, and Paul Weitz), and SL-3 (the second crew, which consisted of Alan Bean
- Digital editions cost $69.99 for Volume 1 and $79.99 each for Volumes 2 and 3
- The forthcoming Volume 3 covers the final Skylab crew, SL-4 (Jerry Carr, Ed Gibson, and Bill Pogue)
- After Volume 4, Steven-Boniecki plans to gather footage from another often-overlooked mission and Apollo's last hurrah: the Apollo-Soyuz Test Project (ASTP)
Summary
The team behind the Searching for Skylab documentary is releasing almost every surviving piece of video it could find from the mission. The collection will span three volumes and 26 DVDs, including an updated version of Searching for Skylab, which they reviewed in 2019. Interested in the prelaunch preparations, briefings, and launch itself? Skylab was NASA's first space station. Skylab re-entered in 1979, scattering debris across a sparsely populated part of Western Australia.