- Acting for Two: Frank Welker voices both Jinx and the computer voice he talks to in the film.
- Alan Smithee: Husband-and-wife team Clifford and Ellen Green were both credited under a single name: "W.W. Wicket" (they used that alias on The Seventh Sign two years later).
- California Doubling: An interesting case. The movie was filmed on location at the real-life Space Camp at the Space and Rocket Center in Huntsville, Alabama, and at the Kennedy Space Center in Titusville, Florida. However, the movie places both locations together in the same vicinity. Space Camp at Kennedy Space Center did not open until 1987 (it closed in 2002).
- Creator Killer: This was the final film to be made by ABC Motion Pictures, coming to a close various feature film ventures that the Alphabet network had independently attempted since the 60's.
- Dawson Casting: Larry B. Scott and Lea Thompson were 24 during filming. Kelly Preston was 23. Tate Donovan was 22. All are supposed to be teenagers. For reference: Kate Capshaw was only 32.
- Vindicated by Cable: Most people saw the film on HBO, long after the Challenger disaster, and were inspired by the ending.
- What Could Have Been: In the original script, a Russian Buran shuttle with Russian kids would have rescued the kids.
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