Directed by: Roy Ward Baker
Starring: Warren Mitchell, Catherine Schell, James Olson, Adrienne Corri
Visible crew/equipment: In several scenes there are rectangular arrays of studio lamps visible, reflected in the actors' space helmets.
Visible crew/equipment: When the space ferry Moon Zero Two is first seen approaching Moon City, the black velvet curtain used as a lunar sky behind the miniature set can be seen sagging.
Factual error: Bill Kempt rigs the sapphire asteroid with rocket motors to divert it toward the Moon. The motors are old and cranky, and to ensure that they fire on time he must, at some risk, lash himself to the rock and manually start the ignition. Upon lighting the engines he has several seconds to cut himself free, but in the scene he's shown swinging weightlessly as he snips the cable. If the asteroid is accelerating, he ought not to be weightless, but rather should be hanging behind the rock on his tether.
2nd Officer: If you're Moon 02, I wish you would sell that thing along with all the other space rubbish you collect.
Trivia: Moon Zero Two is one of only three movies (of which I'm aware) that portray the vacuum of space as being non-acoustical: there are no sound effects laid in for the "outdoor" scenes. The other two flicks are 2001: A Space Odyssey, and Destination Moon.
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