They talk about the possibility of the astronauts having turned but orbital mechanics make this impossible for a spacecraft with limited fuel. They would have to go a full orbit around the Sun or use an immense amount of fuel - much more than they could have possibly brought with them.
When Dr. Hassler is developing the film from his eye camera, he does so under a red safelight. However, red light will fog undeveloped film; only photo paper is non-responsive to red light.
When Jason Webb's first is seen, in the video briefing room, there's a shot of the NASA liaison, however, even though NASA is an acronym for National Aeronautics and Space Administration, it never was written with full-stops after each letter, i.e; N.A.S.A.
When the craft approaches the alternate earth, the sun can be seen rising.
The stars should also be rising at the same rate but are stationary.
As the rocket rises during the launch sequence, sparks are seen in the exhaust stream. These suggest that the prop used solid fuel and small particles of fuel are incandescing. The rocket of the film is liquid fueled and would produce no sparks, mostly clouds of steam.
When the astronauts are training for their mission, and have a parachute jump, clearly one of the parachutes doesn't open.
During the interrogation, the wrist watches are still on the doppelgangers' left wrists and the wedding ring is on the ring finger of the left hand. They should have been reversed.
Note : he is from the real Earth not the duplicate, so his wedding ring etc is in the correct place - on the penultimate finger of the left hand.
Note : he is from the real Earth not the duplicate, so his wedding ring etc is in the correct place - on the penultimate finger of the left hand.
When in space there is still gravity, it is most evident when the astronauts are looking at photographs of the new planet.
When placing the astronauts in the capsule, we see Roy Thinnes facing us on the left-hand side and Ian Hendry on the right-hand side of the capsule. A few seconds later, the positions are reversed and remain so throughout the scenes involving the capsule.
The protagonist is surprised by a driver on the wrong side of the road but he does not even mention the fact that the steering wheel would be in the other side of the car than what he is used to if everything is reversed.
If it took a gigantic rocket to get the space capsule in orbit around Earth, how was it then possible to shoot the landing capsule from Earth 2 up into orbit without another gigantic rocket to launch it?
To answer why a second rocket is not needed for the return trip. The rocket had to lift the main craft and the landing craft. For the return the lighter landing craft only needed to reach the main craft in orbit which it could do under its own power. The heavier main craft did not need to be lifted from the planet surface a second time because it remained in orbit.
The main craft only needed enough power to break out of orbit. This is how the Apollo missions to the moon were done.
When John Kane is retrieving photographs in the space craft before landing, there's a hand in the printer slot handing out the photographs.
Perturbations caused by the inner planets on each other were carefully measured in the 19th century, leading to the oddity for Mercury that Einstein explained with General Relativity.
An extra counter-Earth would have produced detectable effects that could not have been missed.
An extra counter-Earth would have produced detectable effects that could not have been missed.
Any simple x-ray of his chest would have convinced the doctors that his organs were reversed, as he has claimed. Even a stethoscope listening to his heart would have sufficed.
Answer: Yes. although reversed/mirrored organs is a real thing if Col Ross had Situs inversus his numerous physical examinations from NASA over the years would have revealed this condition if he'd had it.