"[3] A preview of the first working version of Searching for Skylab was screened at Spacefest, Tucson, AZ on July 5, 2018 to a crowd of space experts, astronauts and their families.

Following a great reception, Boniecki completed filming and got the movie ready for its release on the 45th anniversary of the return of the last Skylab crew to Earth on February 8, 2019.

[4] Shortly before completion, a sneak peek of the movie’s working version was presented in November 2018 at the Science Late Show at the Kosmos Kino in Zürich.

[7] Audience members often stated: „It was the most accurate space documentary.”[8] The production team made a point of highlighting this during pre-production via interviews conducted online.

A discussion between Dwight Steven-Boniecki, who at that point had been working on compiling the Skylab Mission Reports for Apogee Books, and his wife Alexandra Steven-Boniecki highlighted how crucial it was to make such a film having researched “many hundreds of hours of video” and listened to “many hundreds of hours of audio”, feeling that “he had to preserve it for future generations in a story that they would like to hear".

Owen Garriott (SL-3 Science Pilot), his son Richard (who also flew in space on Soyuz TMA-13/TMA-12), and Jerry Carr (SL-4 Commander) joined via Skype.

[16] Richard Speed from The Register, a UK based online magazine, stated "I found the film very enjoyable and would recommend it to anyone with even a passing interest in the space programme.