Goofs

Throughout the film, when Captain William Stanaforth communicates with Earth by, there is no delay in receiving a reply. The farther from Earth he is the delay would increase to many minutes between sending a signal and receiving a reply.

In a voice-over in the trailer, Stanaforth says; "The Sun comes through the window once a week". As the living module rotates about the main axis in around 9 seconds and the modules along the axis don't seem to be rotating at all, where does the idea that the Sun only comes through the window once a week come from?

The arm connecting the living module and those along the main axis is an open framework, so clearly Stanaforth cannot readily move between the two sections. In which case what are the other modules for, as they obviously don't store food, oxygen or equipment needed in the living module?

In a voice-over in the trailer, Stanaforth reports; "The ship is going 160,000 miles per hour". This is 44.4 miles per second. The fastest spacecraft relative to the Earth was New Horizons, which set off to Pluto at 36,373 mph - 10.1 miles per second - considerably slower. The Juno spacecraft sent to Jupiter reached a record 165,000 mph, but this speed was relative to the Sun, not the Earth. The ExoMars craft sent to Mars left Earth at 20,500 mph. In addition, a caption states; "The journey will take 270 days" which is a reasonable time to reach Mars. However if the craft really did travel at 160,000 mph it would only take 81 days, again showing that the value of 160,000 mph is incorrect.

There is a framework arm holding the living module and a corresponding arm in the other direction, which should have a mass counterbalancing the living module as the arms rotate about the central axis. However the other arm is only half the length and the module at the end of it only appears to be about half the size of the living module. Together this would make for an incredibly unbalanced structure as they rotated.

Gaseous nebulae abound in this movie. All there is between Earth and Mars is space, with a background of stars and perhaps an occasional intrusive comet or asteroid.

After Captain Stanaforth @overrides@ the spaceship and returns to the living module you can see old MOLEX and MiniMOLEX connectors hanging in the frame as they are part of spaceship. Also in 1h17m00s you can see old ATX connector from PC PSU.

Most of the equipment on the ship's inside is made of random electronic, sound equipment, old power management equipment and similar things what doesn't give a good impression as the ship would be state of the art of engineering.

Scenes are shown that are supposed to be of the Atacama Desert in Chile/Bolivia.

However, the vegetation shown makes it clear that the scene was filmed in Southern California.

The scientist has made a machine that can extract hydrogen and oxygen from dry soil, then use the hydrogen and oxygen to make water. The crisis on the way to Mars is that he contaminated his water supply. It would seem easy for such a scientist to distill the contaminated water to get clean drinking water. Even if he could not distill the contaminated water, it would seem far easier to extract hydrogen and oxygen from contaminated water than from soil.

In a voice-over in the trailer, Stanaforth reports; "The ship is going 160,000 miles per hour, but I can't tell I'm moving." Yet he is shown in a module which is rotating to produce simulated gravity and looking out of a window at the Earth spinning round. Not only could he see this, but over a few hours at most he'd be able to see the Earth appearing smaller.