Skylab completists, clear some shelf space for 26 DVDs

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Skylab completists, clear some shelf space for 26 DVDs

The Register · 3 hours ago

The team behind the documentary Searching for Skylab is releasing a companion collection of almost every surviving piece of video footage from NASA's Skylab missions, spanning three volumes and 26 DVDs. Unlike the original documentary, aimed at general viewers, this archive is designed for completists who want raw, unedited footage of the mission's preparations, launch, repairs and experiments, offering an unusually detailed record of America's first space station.

The set includes an updated cut of the original 2019 documentary alongside downlinked transmissions and film returned by the three crewed Apollo missions to the station between 1973 and 1974. Producer Dwight Steven-Boniecki told The Register that roughly half the footage came from material gathered for the original film, with the rest recovered through years of archive hunting, including kinescopes in his own collection and painstaking work to restore audio, such as syncing a silent solar-observation reel using mission audio and reconstructing sound from a collector's mobile-phone recording of a projector playback.

  • New 26-DVD, three-volume set collects nearly all surviving Skylab mission footage.
  • Aimed at completists, not newcomers, who should watch the original documentary first.
  • Producer spent years recovering rare kinescopes and restoring damaged or missing audio.

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