Zoomer30 - 12/9/2006 8:38 PMThe movie was good, but by that time I was old enough to notice the GLARING errors.1 Shuttle did at least 3 roll programs before they call out the roll program, about a minute late (An issue with using archival footage)2 OMS engines had the white "FRF Covers" on the nozzles, but at liftoff they were magically gone.3 "Im sorry sir, they only have short range radios"........hmmmmm. So for some reason they gutted the entire avionics bay and removed the normal comm systems just so they could have a plot point.4 Jinx.....The Reason NASA Always Needs A Bigger Budget 5 Have not seen the movie in a long time, but I am sure the tank CHANGED COLOR twice during the liftoff sequence, another issue with using stock NASA footage.6 Thermal Curtian.....is there even such a thing and even if it did fail would it cause the SRB to ignite. 7 They pushed a BUTTON to lauch the thing.............-----------------------------------But a lot of space movies have issues like that. Marooned showd the SatV on the pad in the final moments of the countdown and the MSS was still at the pad around the rocket. In Apollo 13 there is a scene where they do a corection burn and after the burn is done you hear a controller say "Roger 13 your go for entry interface". EI is when the ships hits the atmosphere, at that point in the flight thye were a good DAY from that point
HailColumbia - 12/9/2006 4:41 PMAtlantis? they always told me it was the enterprise simulator that they used in the film (thus the full sized payload bay etc etc.) maybe they used both.
MarkD - 23/8/2006 1:34 PMNot related, but an amusing question. Remember the movie Rocketman Disney made? The funniest scene was the little far joke Harland Williams character did to the mission commander. Has that ever happened to an astronaut in a suit where gas was an issue? I ask because they're in an enclosed suit.
paulhbell07 - 24/9/2006 5:39 AMI have had this dvd for a couple of years now, my 8 year old niece would rather watch this film than watch her own disney dvd's. I know it has mistakes in it, but she loves watching it. She is hoping to get to the cape before 2010 to see a real launch.