I mention in my previous article about the launch of Skylab 3 that I would hunt for videos related to the mission. Well, sure enough, I quickly found a solid one – Skylab, A Scientific Harvest is a 1974 produced NASA Film on the two month long Skylab 3 mission.
The video goes into light detail on the mission, and many elements which I mentioned in my original article, while also covering things I chose to skip, or didn’t know precise details about. As I said in that previous article, it was a pretty by the books mission for Skylab – well, ignoring the fact that it was such a well going mission that the crew actually went ahead of schedule, far more efficiently working than was planned.
The reality of the flight captured in this film is interesting – these clips are of the actual mission, the actual experiments. Some of which seem almost silly, but at this time, such research in micro-gravity simply had never been done before. Such was part of the purpose of Skylab, to give us a research platform in Earth orbit.
What a platform it was.
This is quite a nice film, for those who can enjoy these slightly more stale older documentaries. It has more of that oddly awesome music that other NASA documentaries from the era have had (see The Time of Apollo for another very prime example) and I feel on a whole well captures the mission. I would expect nothing less considering that this is, after all, a NASA produced film.
Enjoy!