At the end of the sequence where a method is devised to fit "a square peg into a round hole" to fix the CO2 scrubbers, a technician is heard saying to the leader of the team that created the makeshift solution (credited simply as "Technician", though it might be assumed that it's Ed Smylie, who was the real guy in charge of that team), "You, sir, are one steely-eyed missile man!" This colloquial NASA title of honor was perhaps most famously bestowed upon John Aaron after he, serving as EECOM, saved the Apollo 12 mission four months earlier, when that craft was struck by lightning during launch and had its telemetry signal scrambled. John Aaron was prominently present during the events of this mission as well. He is the tech played by Loren Dean, who, along with Ken Mattingly (Gary Sinise), figures out how to power up the craft for re-entry.

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