History Trivia / FromTheEarthToTheMoon

* PropRecycling: A lot of sets and props from ''Film/{{Apollo 13}}'' were reused to make this miniseries. Justified as the Apollo missions were obviously all going to use largely the same hardware and facilities. The biggest aversions were the first episode (which covered Mercury and Gemini), and the last three episodes (which covered the J-series missions which used an upgraded lunar module and introduced the lunar rover).

** Creator/PeterScolari played Pete Conrad early in the series. In the actual Apollo 12 episode, the role was re-cast with by Paul [=McCrane=] due to Scolari's scheduling conflicts with ''Series/HoneyIShrunkTheKids''.

* ProducedByCastMember: Creator/TomHanks, in addition to introducing the first 11 parts, was the executive producer.

* PropRecycling: A lot of sets and props from ''Film/{{Apollo 13}}'' were reused to make this miniseries. Justified as the Apollo missions were obviously all going to use largely the same hardware and facilities. The biggest aversions were the first episode (which covered Mercury and Gemini), and the last three episodes (which covered the J-series missions which used an upgraded lunar module and introduced the lunar rover).

** Creator/PeterScolari played Pete Conrad early in the series. In the actual Apollo 12 episode, the role was played by Paul [=McCrane=] due to Scolari's scheduling conflicts with ''Creator/HoneyIShrunkTheKids''.

** Creator/PeterScolari played Pete Conrad early in the series. In the actual Apollo 12 episode, they realized Scolari was too tall,[[note]]Pete Conrad is not a tall man, and was the shortest member of that crew[[/note]] so they got Paul [=McCrane=]. [[note]]IMDB, however, lists both Scolari and McCrane at 5'7". Conrad was 5'6".[[/note]]

** Jan Armstrong, Neil Armstrong's wife, was also depicted by two different actresses: Betsy Brantley, and Ann Cusack.

* CreatorCameo: In "Can We Do This?", the ''Meet the Press'' host is portrayed by Andrew Chaikin, who also wrote ''A Man on the Moon''.

* TheOtherDarrin: Creator/PeterScolari played Pete Conrad early in the series. In the actual Apollo 12 episode, they realized Scolari was too tall,[[note]]Pete Conrad is not a tall man, and was the shortest member of that crew[[/note]] so they got Paul [=McCrane=]. [[note]]IMDB, however, lists both Scolari and McCrane at 5'7". Conrad was 5'6".[[/note]]

* ReferencedBy: ''Prelude to Space,'' where it's subject to some FutureImperfect interpretation. Namely, that travel to Luna was developed in the late 1800's. And the DownerEnding was lost aling the way.

* RefferrencedBy: ''Prelude to Space,'' where it's subject to some FutureImperfect interpretation. Namely, that travel to Luna was developed in the late 1800's. And the DownerEnding was lost aling the way.

* ReferrencedBy: ''Prelude to Space,'' where it's subject to some FutureImperfect interpretation. Namely, that travel to Luna was developed in the late 1800's. And the DownerEnding was lost aling the way.

* RefferencedBy: ''Prelude to Space,'' where it's subject to some FutureImperfect interpretation. Namely, that travel to Luna was developed in the late 1800's. And the DownerEnding was lost aling the way.

* TheOtherDarrin: Peter Scolari played Pete Conrad early in the series. In the actual Apollo 12 episode, they realized Scolari was too tall,[[note]]Pete Conrad is not a tall man, and was the shortest member of that crew[[/note]] so they got Paul [=McCrane=]. [[note]]IMDB, however, lists both Scolari and McCrane at 5'7". Conrad was 5'6".[[/note]]