The Astronaut Farmer

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• Movie Goof (factual errors): The orbital views of Africa and Baja California are not accurate for a craft in a low orbit, and would require a much higher altitude.
• During the filming in and around Santa Fe, New Mexico, Billy Bob Thornton did a "One stop promotion tour" as he put it, for both his album Hobo, and The Astronaut Farmer at the Santa Fe bookstore, Borders.
• Movie Goof (factual errors): A spacesuit requires external connections to a) supply air for breathing and cooling and b) remove carbon dioxide and excess heat. Thornton's character is shown wearing a spacesuit in many situations that would have resulted in both overheating (when he wasn't wearing the helmet), and suffocation (while wearing the helmet closed), since he had no portable air conditioning unit or other umbilicals connected.
• Movie Goof (plot holes): He loses his wedding ring in the first capsule. He finds it floating weightlessly in space in the second capsule.