Character mistake: A TV news announcer describes Alan Shepard's first manned launch into space as him being lifted to "an altitude of 116 miles per hour." That's not an altitude, that's a speed. It should have just been "116 miles."
Character mistake: In the conference room while discussing the recovery zone, one character in the Navy refers to a recovery zone "20 miles square" (20 miles on each side = 400 square miles), whereas after the calculation, Catherine refers to the zone as "give or take 20 square miles," about 4.5 miles on each side.
