The song The Blue Danube Waltz is a reference to 2001: A Space Odyssey. Both are used in sequences with spacecraft over Earth.
The first movie in the "Buddies" series to not feature the Framm family.
The film's original script had Yuri, the Russian cosmonaut, die in the space station explosion. Producers forced the writers to have him survive and return to Earth so that the film's distribution wouldn't be banned in Russia.
Jadyn Wong's debut.
Jadyn Wong is of Chinese ancestry,