Pat White says that she has to move from the house she shared with her late husband. Shoe does move but not from Houston. She later remarried and then spent her final years living in the Memorial area of Houston, passing away in 1983 at the age of fifty. Although it was strongly denied by family and friends, it has been postulated that she may have taken her own life.
In this miniseries, Elizabeth Perkins plays the wife of astronaut Jim Lovell, and Tom Hanks plays Jim Lovell in the movie Apollo 13. Perkins and Hanks were love interests in the movie Big. Hanks' real-life spouse, Rita Wilson, plays Frank Borman's wife Susan in the miniseries.
In the kitchen of the Lovell house there are three clocks visible. One permanently mounted in the wall, another on the stove and a third in what appears to be a wall mounted hi-fi. Plus, both of the Lovells are wearing watches. This can be viewed in the scene when Jim and Marilyn are talking about the times that things happened when he was away.
Debra Jo Rupp, who portrays Marilyn See, is best known for her roll as Kitty Foreman in the long running television series "That 70's Show"