Skylab began its descent earlier than expected, and ended up crashing down to earth over Western Australia. Dwight tells the story of the end of Skylab as a space station, and discusses the general public's reaction to the danger of being struc

The Skylab Astronauts

May 6th, 2019 45m 36s

Dwight lists the astronauts who flew on the three manned Skylab missions, and tells some anecdotes about meeting some of them while making the "Searching For Skylab" documentary. In some cases, the interviews with the astronauts were the last t

Saving Skylab

Apr 23rd, 2019 42m 30s

The Skylab launch was pretty textbook...right up until a micrometeroid shield erroneously opened. The shield was damaged, a solar array was ripped off, and another was damaged. Essentially, NASA had just launched a dud into orbit, and they had

The Origins and Goals of Skylab

Apr 8th, 2019 30m 33s

Dwight takes us through the origins of the Skylab program, its goals, and what it meant to NASA. We also take a look at the experiments carried out on the space station, which included observing the sun, zero-G effects on humans, and...spiders

Meet Dwight Steven-Boniecki

Mar 26th, 2019 32m 29s

In the first episode of the Searching For Skylab podcast, meet Dwight Steven-Boniecki, who just released the first full-length documentary about Skylab. We discuss why he made the movie, how he came to be such a Skylab nerd, and why Skylab has