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* PropellerHatOfWhimsy: "That's All There Is" follows the Apollo 12 mission and its crew... who are ''not'' your typical astronauts. This is a crew seemingly comprised of three goofballs complete with propellers on their official mission hats. Don't let that fool you, they're still astronauts, which means they're ''highly'' competent.
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Peter Scolari and Paul crane are the exact same height. The casting swap was because Scolari was filming the Honey I Shrunk the Kids TV series and couldn't continue in the role.


-->'''Pete Conrad:''' ''[on taking his first steps on the Moon]'' ''Yipee!'' That may have been a small one for Neil, but it was a big one for me![[note]]TruthInTelevision: Those were his ExactWords when he stepped on the Moon. And Pete Conrad is ''not'' a tall man; one of the reasons [[TheOtherDarrin they swapped Peter Scolari out for Paul McCrane]]. Conrad later claimed that he said those words as part of a bet with an Italian journalist to prove to her that astronauts weren't given scripted lines in advance. He also claimed that she never paid up.[[/note]]

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-->'''Pete Conrad:''' ''[on taking his first steps on the Moon]'' ''Yipee!'' That may have been a small one for Neil, but it was a big one for me![[note]]TruthInTelevision: Those were his ExactWords when he stepped on the Moon. And Pete Conrad is ''not'' a tall man; one of the reasons [[TheOtherDarrin they swapped Peter Scolari out for Paul McCrane]]. Conrad later claimed that he said those words as part of a bet with an Italian journalist to prove to her that astronauts weren't given scripted lines in advance. He also claimed that she never paid up.[[/note]]
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* AdaptedOut: {{UsefulNotes/NASA}}'s flight tests with rhesus monkeys and chimpanzees are not even mentioned outside a sound bite from a comedy skit poking fun at the American space program in the opening titles. In reality, a chimp named Ham had been launched in January 1961 on the exact same mission Alan Shepard flew in May. If [[=NASA=]] had been as balls-to-the-wall about getting a human into space as the Soviets were, they would have beaten Yuri Gagarin's launch by three months. This was also a missed chance to highlight how inconsequential the act of launching manned space missions was to [=NASA=] until Kennedy's historic RousingSpeech.

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* AdaptedOut: {{UsefulNotes/NASA}}'s flight tests with rhesus monkeys and chimpanzees are not even mentioned outside a sound bite from a comedy skit poking fun at the American space program in the opening titles. In reality, a chimp named Ham had been launched in January 1961 on the exact same mission Alan Shepard flew in May. If [[=NASA=]] [=NASA=] had been as balls-to-the-wall about getting a human into space as the Soviets were, they would have beaten Yuri Gagarin's launch by three months. This was also a missed chance to highlight how inconsequential the act of launching manned space missions was to [=NASA=] until Kennedy's historic RousingSpeech.

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