- Movie Goof (factual errors): As the crew attempts to rotate the shield to repair it, there is an argument that they would lose com towers 3 and 4, which they say would need on the way home. However, many shots including the simulation of payload delivery reveal that the Icarus' small shield which is supposed to protect Icarus after the payload is detached, just isn't wide enough to protect those towers at all, so they would've lost them anyway. It is even questionable, whether this shield would be capable of protecting the Icarus itself after detaching the payload with the large shield and at that close distance from the sun.
- SPOILER: The final scene is filmed on Gärdet, Stockholm, Sweden. The Sydney Opera House has been added to give the impression that it had snowed in Australia.
- Movie Goof (incorrectly regarded as a mistake): The spacecraft takes sixteen months to cover fifty-five million miles but only takes what seems a period of less than a week to travel the remaining thirty-six million miles. As described in the commentary, it takes sixteen months to arrive at their destination because, they likely had to use the gravity of larger planets such a Jupiter (which is in the opposite direction) in order to obtain the correct velocity to orbit the sun.
- Movie Goof (errors made by characters, possibly deliberate errors by the filmmakers): Searle's statement about 90% of dust being human skin is a commonly held, but false, urban myth. Common household dust on Earth is composed of many different things, and none of them individually account for anything close to 90% of it. Given the situation, it's entirely possible that the dust he's looking at is mostly human skin, but this is not true of dust in general.
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