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Zero-gravity filming, practical sets and the origins of Failure Is Not an Option
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- Spielberg is credited with suggesting parabolic-flight filming — Bill Simmons
- The actors filmed in brief zero-gravity intervals during long flights — Bill Simmons
- Full-size modules and a chilled set are reported — Bill Simmons
- The splashdown was reportedly filmed in a Universal lot lake — Bill Simmons
- The USS New Orleans substituted for the unavailable Iwo Jima — Bill Simmons
- Bacon praises Hanks’s intensive astronaut training — Bill Simmons
- Failure Is Not an Option is reported as wording created for the movie, later used by Kranz as a book title — Bill Simmons
- Mission-control leadership is said to have been consolidated, leaving Glynn Lunney out; the transcript renders the name imperfectly — Bill Simmons
- Marilyn’s lost ring is said to have been recovered in real life — Bill Simmons
- Bacon’s repeated Jack/Jackie character names are listed across seven productions — Bill Simmons