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Searching for Skylab
Searching for Skylab - America's Forgotten Triumph is a 2019 documentary about the 1970s American space station Skylab. It was written by Carl Alessi and directed by Dwight Steven-Boniecki and partly crowdfunded.
Searching for Skylab was created to bring attention to the important role Skylab played in the development of human spaceflight programs. Of Skylab, Steven-Boniecki said, "Hundreds of hours of video and audio recordings exist from it, yet it is unlikely that you've seen or heard much of it."
A preview of the first working version of Searching for Skylab was screened at Spacefest, in Tucson, Arizona, July 5, 2018 to a crowd of space experts, astronauts and their families. In November 2018, shortly before the film's completion, a sneak peek of the movie’s working version was presented at the Science Late Show at the Kosmos Kino in Zürich.
The finished documentary was released February 8, 2019, the 45th anniversary of the splashdown of the last Skylab crew.
The film is regarded by experts as being extremely accurate. Correct mission footage is shown in all instances of the movie. Audience members often stated it was "the most accurate space documentary.” Searching for Skylab has been praised by writers for various spaceflight enthusiast communities.
Apart from several mission-specific 30-minute reports from the early 1970s, no attempt had been made to thoroughly document the Skylab program since the last flight returned in 1974. Dwight Steven-Boniecki, compiling material for the Skylab Mission Reports series for Apogee Books, mentioned to his wife Alexandra that it was crucial to distill “many hundreds of hours of video” and “many hundreds of hours of audio” to create a work that would “preserve [Skylab] for future generations."
German band 10 Cent Janes were approached to compose the film's title song. Dwight met the band's lead singer of the band on a flight from Frankfurt to New Delhi in 2013. Steven-Boniecki felt the group could deliver the style required for the film.
The world premiere of Searching for Skylab took place at the U.S. Space and Rocket Center in Huntsville, Alabama on February 8, 2019. Skylab astronauts Jack Lousma (Skylab 3) and Ed Gibson (Skylab 4) attended, along with Alan Bean’s former wife Sue and daughter Amy, and Huntsville engineers John Reaves, Roy Logston and Willie Weaver.
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Searching for Skylab
Searching for Skylab - America's Forgotten Triumph is a 2019 documentary about the 1970s American space station Skylab. It was written by Carl Alessi and directed by Dwight Steven-Boniecki and partly crowdfunded.
Searching for Skylab was created to bring attention to the important role Skylab played in the development of human spaceflight programs. Of Skylab, Steven-Boniecki said, "Hundreds of hours of video and audio recordings exist from it, yet it is unlikely that you've seen or heard much of it."
A preview of the first working version of Searching for Skylab was screened at Spacefest, in Tucson, Arizona, July 5, 2018 to a crowd of space experts, astronauts and their families. In November 2018, shortly before the film's completion, a sneak peek of the movie’s working version was presented at the Science Late Show at the Kosmos Kino in Zürich.
The finished documentary was released February 8, 2019, the 45th anniversary of the splashdown of the last Skylab crew.
The film is regarded by experts as being extremely accurate. Correct mission footage is shown in all instances of the movie. Audience members often stated it was "the most accurate space documentary.” Searching for Skylab has been praised by writers for various spaceflight enthusiast communities.
Apart from several mission-specific 30-minute reports from the early 1970s, no attempt had been made to thoroughly document the Skylab program since the last flight returned in 1974. Dwight Steven-Boniecki, compiling material for the Skylab Mission Reports series for Apogee Books, mentioned to his wife Alexandra that it was crucial to distill “many hundreds of hours of video” and “many hundreds of hours of audio” to create a work that would “preserve [Skylab] for future generations."
German band 10 Cent Janes were approached to compose the film's title song. Dwight met the band's lead singer of the band on a flight from Frankfurt to New Delhi in 2013. Steven-Boniecki felt the group could deliver the style required for the film.
The world premiere of Searching for Skylab took place at the U.S. Space and Rocket Center in Huntsville, Alabama on February 8, 2019. Skylab astronauts Jack Lousma (Skylab 3) and Ed Gibson (Skylab 4) attended, along with Alan Bean’s former wife Sue and daughter Amy, and Huntsville engineers John Reaves, Roy Logston and Willie Weaver.