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Year of production : 2019

Director(s) : Dwight STEVEN-BONIECKI
Writer(s) : Carl ALESSI
Cast : Joe KERWIN, Paul WEITZ, Jack LOUSMA, Owen GARRIOTT, Gerald P. CARR, Ed GIBSON, Lubos KOHOUTEK, Vance BRAND, Bruce MCCANDLESS II, Herb BAKER, Sue BEAN, Jannet BUTZINGER, Mary Teresa COHN, James KINZLER, Sylvia KINZLER, Gratia LOUSMA, Matthew WEITZ, Roy LOGSTON, Willie WEAVER, John H. REAVES, Cyril FENWICK, Hamish LINDSAY, Phil MAIER, Glen NAGLE, Phil RUTHERFORD, John SAXON, Bernard SMITH, Emily CARNEY, Andrew CHAIKIN, Jay CHLADEK, Mark PESTANA, Guido SCHWARZ, David HITT

Producer(s) : Alexandra STEVEN-BONIECKI (1080 VMC)

The first American space station Skylab is found in pieces scattered in Western Australia. Yet this picture of destruction is deceiving. Putting the pieces of Skylab back together and re-tracing the station's history back to its very conception reveals a key program of human space exploration. Using re-mastered, long-lost and in some cases, never-seen archive footage integrated with eye-witness accounts of the astronauts, engineers and their families, the movie presents a very factual account of the most glorious times of NASA while keeping a very human view of the demands placed on the NASA and contractor staff. The story of Skylab is a remarkable part of human exploration history without which the world as we know it wouldn't be possible today.