The top mistakes in Apollo 13 http://www.moviemistakes.com/film75 en Sat, 10 May 2008 05:55:01 +0000 445 In the scene where Lovell's daughter is complaining that the Beatles have broken up, she slams the album <i>Let It Be</i> into her rack. The scene takes place on the day of the explosion, April 13th, 1970. <i>Let It Be</i> was not released until May 9th, 1970. 446 In the part where the mission control guy is explaining how they're going to sling shot around the moon, the pictures on the chalkboard change. 25193 During the launch sequence, all nine swingarms on the launch tower are seen retracting, one by one, as the Saturn V reaches full thrust. In real life, only five swingarms would still be attached to the rocket during this phase. These "in-flight" arms would swing away as the rocket lifted off and cleared the launcher. 84870 In the final 1/2 hour there's a scene in which Kevin Bacon is drifting weightlessly in the lunar module, with a roll of duct tape floating nearby. Just during the last couple of seconds of this shot, suddenly he & the roll accelerate to the right. As everyone now knows the zero-g scenes were photographed on-board an aircraft which flies free-fall arcs for up to about 20 seconds before having to level off. The sudden acceleration on the set means that shot was filmed just as the plane was leveling off from a dive. 79668 When Ken Mattingly is drinking from beverage cans, the cans are of a "necked" design (where the diameter of the top is less than that of the main body of the can). Necked cans were not actually produced until the 1990's.