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* The DVDs of Firefly were flown up to the International Space Station by astronaut Steven Swanson on board the shuttle Atlantis during its June 2007 STS-117 mission.
* Every scene in space is shot without sound effects of the ship moving, precisely as it would in real vacuum. [[Sound in Space|No air, no sound.]] (Note this does not cover [[Mickey Mousing|dramatic music]] that plays during space scenes.)
* According to an oral history of
* The sound made by Mal's hand gun is the same sound as the eponymous character's hand gun in the Spaghetti Western [[Django]] (1966), played by Franco Nero.
* The "Crazy Ivan" maneuver pulled by Wash in the pilot is inspired by a nearly-identical submarine maneuver. It was used during the early days of the Cold War by Russian submarines, in order to check the "baffle", the sonar dead zone directly behind the submarine; and given the name "Crazy Ivan" by US and allied submarine crews. The adoption of towed sonar arrays effectively ended the necessity for the "Crazy Ivan" maneuver. Referenced in its original context in ''[[The Hunt for Red October]]''.
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