gordo - 5/2/2007 3:27 PMIts really a go watch the move, read the book then re-watch the movie sort of thing.A few from meThe Movie only features the final course correction burn, the Free return and PC2 ones were the biggiesJohn Aaron was the key person that came up with the power up procedure along with any other.The CO2 emergency was not the emergency depicted in the film. It was known about early on and the fix was in place long before it was needed.
nathan.moeller - 5/2/2007 5:34 PM...Jim Lovell never said "Houston we have a problem." That's one of the biggest misquotes in existence....Look up the goofs on us.imdb.com under Apollo 13 and there are plenty more...
nathan.moeller - 5/2/2007 6:34 PM3. The first words upon their return are inaccurate. In the movie, Tom Hanks states "Hello, Houston? This is Odyssey. It's good to see you again." In fact, Swigert is the first to be heard in the transmission, then Houston radios back that they could see them on the mains.
Dana - 5/2/2007 6:18 PM Likewise, shifts rotated at Mission Control, with other guys taking the Flight chair besides Gene Kranz.
Shorty Powers - 6/2/2007 9:14 AMRegarding historical inaccuracies, this one is really nit-picky:The only Saturn V which had an Instrument Unit painted with a dashed black line (rather than a solid black line all the way around) was Apollo/Saturn-500F, the facilities test vehicle used for testing the bird's mating compatibility with L/C-39.The Apollo 13's movie Saturn V was incorrectly depicted with the dashed line.Don't ask me why, but seeing the wrong paint scheme on the IU bothers me everytime I watch an otherwise outstanding movie. Maybe it's the scale modeler in me.