Yes, it was. Utterly, moronicly wrong.
“Okay, so we know it can’t,” Garrett Reisman, a former NASA astronaut who flew on the space shuttle, admitted in an interview with collectSPACE.
Reisman, who made a cameo appearance as the commander of the space shuttle Columbia on its way back from the moon, has served as a technical advisor for the series from its start.
“We all pointed out that the shuttle could never actually get to the moon. It had nowhere near enough delta-v,” he said, referring to a change in velocity. “We even did calculations that showed if you filled up the payload bay with hydrazine and fed it to the [orbital maneuvering system] OMS engines, you still couldn’t get to the moon and back without exceeding the payload mass of the orbiter.”