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• Continuity: While they are in space, weightlessness only seems to affect their bodies, and Tish's jewelry, but not their hair which remains hanging as if gravity is still in effect.
  
  
• Factual errors: Almost immediately after reaching orbit, the Space Shuttle has to open its cargo bay doors in order to vent heat from the craft through radiators built on the inside of the doors. These doors aren't closed again until just before re-entry in order to prevent over-heating. For much of their time in orbit in this movie, the bay doors remain closed. In addition, the doors on Atlantis don't even have the radiators.
  
  
• Errors made by characters (possibly deliberate errors by the filmmakers): When the NASA computers tell Jinx that there is no "Max" in the space program, the display lists real-life astronauts and their status at the time of filming. Mark N. Brown's status is misspelled as "canidate". Seconds later, Virgil "Gus" Grissom's first name is misspelled "Vergil".
  
  

• Factual errors: During liftoff, Andie tells Kevin "You've gotta drop the solid boosters - they're on your side." She tells him that the controls are on panel C3, which is correct, but panel C3 is directly between the pilot and commander seats, and the SRB separation controls can be easily reached by either crew member. Also, during launch, according to NASA and other shuttle astronauts, the PLT and CDR don't touch anything during launch. The separation of the SRB's is done by onboard computer. The only indication of SRB performance is a light that tells the crew the SRB's are about to separate. No buttons are pushed.
  
  
• Continuity: The locations of Andy, Max and the connection cable to Andy's EMU suit change repeatedly while Max is attempting to draw Andy back into the cargo bay. In one shot, Max is banging his fist against the cargo bay doors, in a proceeding shot, he's about 10 feet away. In the following shot of Max, he is against the doors again.
  
  
• Continuity: When Kevin and Katherine go to the beach after curfew, there's a close up of the shuttle on the launch pad as seen from the beach. In all the subsequent shots from far away there is no shuttle on the launch pad.
  
  
• Plot holes: When at Andy is trying to get more oxygen tanks from the space center, she is unable to reach the tank because her helmet is too big and it keeps hitting the metal bars. But when Max volunteers to go, he is put into an adult size astronaut suit because that is all that is there. If Andy had problems reaching it due to her helmet, then Max wouldn't have been able to reach it either.
  
  
• Factual errors: After the shuttle clears the launch tower at the Kennedy Space Center in Cape Canaveral, FL, all radio transmissions are immediately sent and received from the Mission Control room at the Johnson Space Center in Houston, TX. Kennedy has no more contact with the shuttle after the initial liftoff, so none of the members of Launch Control including Andy's Husband Zack would be able to talk to them. Also, the radio installed for the FRF test would be the same radio used on regular shuttle missions. It sort of comes standard with the electronics and is not interchangeable.
  
  
• Factual errors: After Kathryn aborted the automatic re-entry to rescue Andie, they stated that there was not enough oxygen even with the refuel to make the next landing window at Edwards. In reality, the first landing available to an orbiting shuttle would have been back at Kennedy an orbit before an Edwards landing was possible, and even if they missed the first one, there would have been at least one more opportunity on the next orbit for any of the four available landing sites (Kennedy, White Sands, Edwards, and Gregg County Airport in Longview, Texas [is deemed an emergency landing location for the shuttle]), about 90 minutes later, well within the 12 hours' air they had left.
  
  
• Plot holes: Solid rocket booster B (SRB-B) supposedly overheats and so SRB-A is ignited, resulting in the launch of the Shuttle. However, given that SRB-B wasn't really overheating, igniting SRB-A alone would not cause a launch but would instead cause the Shuttle to lift off and crash (which, ironically, is exactly what they were trying to prevent).
  
  
• Continuity: During the re-entry sequence when the space shuttle enters a flat spin the exterior shots of the shuttle correctly show a combination of out-of-control roll and yaw. The internal cockpit shots show the earth rotating in the background through the side-windows which could only occur if the shuttle were pitching end over end.
  
  
• Continuity: While viewing the shuttle on the pad, the antenna on the jeep is up and loose in the frontal shots but tied down from the rear shot.
  
  
• Factual errors: With the crew facing low oxygen reserves, recommendations to refrain from speaking are made on more than one occasion. In actual fact, talking uses no more oxygen than breathing normally, only significant aerobic exertion would result in a significantly higher oxygen consumption.
  
  

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