Skylab completists, clear some shelf space for 26 DVDs

Decades of archive hunting recover downlinks, silent reels, and footage once thought lost

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 we reviewed in 2019. It gathers almost everything the team could find that was downlinked from the station or returned to Earth aboard the three Apollo spacecraft that visited it.

Interested in the prelaunch preparations, briefings, and launch itself? It's all there. How about the efforts to make the station habitable after a solar array and shield were torn off during launch? Yep – that's there too. That time the crew tested maneuvering equipment inside Skylab that would become the Manned Maneuvering Unit used during early Shuttle missions? Also there.

Skylab was NASA's first space station....

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