Space 3D Podcast

Season 1, Episode 8: Skylab Bonus—Dwight Steven-Boniecki


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Co-hosts Eleanor and Emily take a break from the regular episodes to present outtakes from an interview with Skylab mission expert, Dwight Steven-Boniecki, including a variety of fascinating and sometimes hilarious anecdotes that did not make it into the pilot episode.

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Dwight Steven-Boniecki was born in Sydney, Australia in 1969, a few months before man walked on the moon. He spent much of his childhood fascinated with space exploration - growing up in the shadow of Apollo and under the direct influence of science fiction films such as Star Wars. The latter shaped his desire to work in the film/television industry.

Having worked in the television industry in Australia, the United States, Great Britain and Germany for nearly 25 years, Dwight’s professional qualifications helped to complement his understanding of the pioneering television achievements of the U.S. space program. Initially to satisfy his own curiosity, Dwight combined his professional background with his interest in spaceflight and researched the television systems developed by NASA. To his dismay, he discovered that while the information was available, it was not easy to access, and had never been comprehensively written about. He set about to change that, and ended up writing the award-winning book, "Live TV From the Moon" as well as “Live TV From Orbit.”

More recently, Dwight completed "Searching for Skylab", the first feature-length documentary about NASA's Skylab Project. This work was also inspired from his fascination with spaceflight, coupled with his fear that Skylab would reenter the atmosphere and crash into his childhood home in Australia!

The film will be premiering at the US Space And Rocket Center in Huntsville, AL in February, 2019.

Here's a teaser: "Searching for Skylab"

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