Goofs

The dish filmed is the up-to-date version of the radio telescope, with a larger diameter white portion in the center of the dish. The dish in the original old black-and-white photos behind Mayor Bob and the Prime Minister in the hallway had a much smaller white center portion to the dish antenna.

St. John's Anglican Church in Parkes (actually Forbes) was the primary location for church shots, and the service on the Sunday before the Moon landing was shot indoors there. However, following the service, the parishioners are seen exiting St Andrew's Presbyterian Church instead of St. John's. Both churches are on the town square. St. John's could not be used on the shooting day as the church was being used for a funeral.

Archive footage of the ascent stage of the lunar module lifting off from the Moon is not from the Apollo 11 mission. The first images of such a lift-off (showing an exterior view of the lunar module) were made using the camera mounted on the wheeled lunar roving vehicles, only carried on later Apollo missions 15, 16, and 17.

There was no US ambassador to Australia in July 1969. William H. Crook had resigned in 1968 but stayed on until April 1969. Walter Lyman Rice was not appointed until September 1969.

Although shown as such out the window of the antenna control room, the Moon was never full during the Apollo 11 mission.

The first pictures of the Moon walk didn't come from Parkes but from another tracking station called Honeysuckle Creek.

During the Apollo 11 launch, the sound is incorrectly synchronized to the pictures. In actuality, engine ignition started T minus 6 seconds, so that the engines would be at full power at zero. Here, the ignition is incorrectly shown as occurring at T 0.

When Billy is explaining the Moon landing to his father, he anticipates Marie's line, "If you ask me, it's the most chauvinistic exercise in the history of the world." (He turns to look at her before she starts speaking even though she is interrupting the conversation.)

At the end of the opening sequence, Sam Neill, as the older Buxton, removes his hat revealing his thinning white hair; the ridge of the bald cap Neill has been fitted with is visible.

In the classroom at the beginning, the first student describes the Moon landing and a battle with aliens which involves lasers. Whilst Lasers had been invented, their commercialization and popular use was not yet prevalent. A more appropriate term would have been ray guns.

When the antenna is moved for the first track, during the segment where the machinery is shown starting, two labels "STOWED" and "FREE" can be seen. These are modern (Brother brand) P-Touch labels.

The young army cadet Keith is seen practicing his rifle drill using the "Slope Arms" position. Slope Arms was replaced by "Shoulder Arms" in the mid-1960s with the introduction of the SLR rifle and was no longer used by Australian Army Cadets in 1969, despite them still using .303 rifles.

The song "Wings of an Eagle" was released in 1972, three years after the Apollo 11 mission.

When the band is rehearsing for the ball and play their Jimi Hendrix song, the guitarist's strumming does not match the music.

When Janine exits the car after she has arrived at the dish facility, the shadow of some equipment falls on the hood and roof of the car.

On the blackboard showing calculations for finding where Apollo 11 is the word parallax is spelled "parrallax".

Near end of film when high winds hit Parkes, a welcome banner stretching across the main street says "Welcome Prime MinAster", i.e., "Minister" is misspelled as "Minaster" on the banner.

Keith performs a left "about turn" outside the mayor's house. A dedicated cadet (as he is) would know that it is always a right "about turn".