Wow, this is just plain awful!
The science in this is so ridiculously stupid. You can absolutely count on the proposition that any scientific "fact" that you see or hear in this movie is completely totally wrong.
1. The Space Shuttle would never be sent to Mars.
2. The sky on Mars is not black.
3. They would never, ever send someone down to the surface alone.
4. They would never, ever send them to the surface for just a couple of hours.
5. They'd never leave a black guy alone with a white woman. NASA has tested this too many times. Far too many, unfortunately.
6. The lander wouldn't return and fly into a hangar. It would dock. This isn't Star Trek, this is NASA.
7. Anything Peter Boyle might have been worried about in 1996 from examining the Mars meteorite wouldn't matter for the Mars mission in a movie in 1998, because it would already be fully underway by that time, as it takes a minimum of 9 months to send humans to Mars, and another 9 months back = 1998. Not 11 months for a round trip with no booty. See number 5.
8. The Magellanic galaxy (which one? there are two) is not 100 million light years away.
9. The surface temperature on Mars is not 225 below.
10. Hmmm, the dead doctor was killed by a space alien, right after the dead doctor took blood samples from the three people returning from space. Why who, who ever could have been responsible for such a thing? Why, I can't possibly think of any three people who it could be.
11. A Marine colonel in Dzundza's position would never be such a gigantic fat f@ck.
12. Space aliens have forked dicks. There was no reason why he had to f@ck the two sisters separately. This is basic space alien anatomy, people! Everyone knows this.
13. No one has a single-barreled shotgun. No one.
14. In space, no one can hear you cum. And obviously not in hooker motels, either.
15. Ross is no Freddie Corleone. He's going for something lower than cocktail waitresses two at a time. Whores.
16. It is a scientifically proven fact that if you have Natasha Henstridge in your movie, you have to see her naked for a helluva lot longer.
17. In no universe could Richard Belzer ever be President.
I want the doctor to take your picture so I can look at you from inside as well.